Added note: I wouldn't say the problem with defining freedom is whether the words are "positive" enough. The problem seems more that freedom is "abstract," so differences in degree of freedom are intangible or vague and hard to describe. It is easier to describe in contrast to the lack of freedom, or oppression, where the difference in degree of "restrictions" on freedom are concrete and easier to compare.
Can you reword your sentence to explain that since freedom is an abstract concept, the degrees of freedom are intangible and hard to measure or describe in practical terms. So freedom is more easily described in terms of the opposite condition, since degrees of oppression, or restrictions on freedom, are concrete phenomena that are easier to describe in comparison.
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I would drop the first "positive" instead.
because no other words....
come across as positive.
convey or carry the same positive message.
etc.
capture the same essence or ideals.
connote the same meaning/feeling/intensity.
are as strong.
are appropriate or as accurate.
definite it or express it as well
describe it as closely or accurately
are as ideal.
are emphatic enough.
2006-11-16 14:20:37
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answered by emilynghiem 5
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Try these:
positive
adjective
Of a constructive nature: affirmative. Informal: upbeat. See help
Giving assent: affirmative, favorable. See affirm
Clearly, fully, and sometimes emphatically expressed: categorical, clear, clear-cut, decided, definite, explicit, express, precise, specific, unambiguous, unequivocal. See clear
Established beyond a doubt: certain, hard, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, sure, unassailable, undeniable, undisputable, unquestionable. See certain, true
Known positively: certain, definite, sure. Idiom: for certain. See certain
Having no doubt: assured, certain, confident, sure, undoubting. See certain
Informal. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer 2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter 2. Informal: flat-out. Chiefly British: blooming. See big, limited
2006-11-16 14:20:46
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answered by Andrew S 3
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Here are a few good choices that would work: explicit, definite, conclusive, clear-cut, decisive, unquestionable, confirmed, certain
2006-11-16 14:25:57
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answered by moonshadow79 2
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