Actual Freedom – Definitions

Definitions

I Am A Rock; Ideality; Idiolect; Idle

If/ Perhaps/ May; Illative/ Illation; Illegitimate

Imminence; Immaterial; Impertinent; Impotent

Impracticability; Imprescriptable; Impressive


I am a Rock’:

‘I am alone; gazing from my window, to the streets below ...
I am a rock, I am an island ...
I build walls; a fortress steep and mighty, that none may penetrate;
I have no need for friendship; friendship cause pain ...
I am a rock, I am an island ...
I am shielded in my armour; hiding in my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one; and no one touches me ...
I am a rock, I am an island ...
And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries’.
(Excerpts from ‘I am a Rock’, First released 1966 on the ‘Sounds of Silence’ album).


Ideality:

Ideality (n., pl. -ties): 1. ideal quality or character; 2. to idealise; 3. (philos.) existence only in idea and not in reality. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Idiolect:

Idiolect (n.): the variety or form of a language used by an individual; (adj.): idiolectal, idiolectic. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Idle:

When I say I have [quote] ‘idly’ [endquote] considered it I am meaning that I have considered it in an ‘idle or lazy way; inactively; indolently’ (Oxford Dictionary) and only mention such casual musings so as to demonstrate just how unlikely it is that anything not pertaining to an actual freedom from the human condition will ever issue forth from this keyboard.


If:

if (conj.): introducing a condition where the question of fulfilment or non-fulfilment is left open: given the hypothesis or proviso that, in the event that. (Oxford Dictionary).

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Perhaps:

perhaps: qualifying a statement so as to express possibility with uncertainty: it may be that; maybe, possibly’. (Oxford Dictionary)

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May:

may: expr. a wish (Oxford Dictionary).


Illative/Illation:

• illative (adj.): of or expressing illation; inferential: an illative word such as “therefore”; (adj.): illatively. [1585-95; from Late Latin illātiō, illātiōn-, a bringing in, from Latin illātus, ‘brought in’, past participle of īnferre, ‘to bring in’, ‘to carry in’, ‘infer’; from in- +ferre, ‘to bear’, ‘carry’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary)

• illation (n.): the process of inferring or deducing; also, that which is inferred or deduced; (adj.): illative. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary).

illative + illation


Illegitimate:

illegitimate (adj.): 1. (a.) being against established or accepted rules and standards; [e.g.]: "An illegitimate means of winning a debate";

(b.) being against the law; illegal; [e.g.]: "As it was an illegitimate contract it was void at law";

(c.) not valid or defensible; [e.g.]: "Their reasons for missing school are illegitimate";

*(d.) incorrectly deduced; illogical; [e.g.]: "It is an illegitimate conclusion drawn from a false premise"*;

(e.) (biology): 1. an illegitimate fertilisation; [e.g.]: "The fertilisation of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers". (Charles Darwin);

2. unacceptable as a scientific name because of not conforming to the international rules of nomenclature; [e.g.]: "By conventional nomenclature it was considered an illegitimate designator";

3.(offensive): born to parents not married to each other; [e.g.]: "In 1985 the news of his illegitimate child came out";

(adv.): illegitimately; (n.): illegitimacy, illegitimateness. [from il-, prefix, var., by assimilation, of in-, ‘not’ (before l, in- is usually assimilated to il- and before r to ir- as well as before b, m, and p to im-), e.g.: illation, illogical, illegal +  Middle English legitimat, ‘born in wedlock’, from Medieval Latin lēgitimātus, ‘law-worthy’, past participle of lēgitimāre, ‘to make lawful’, from Latin lēgitimus, ‘legitimate’, singular of lēx, lēg-, ‘law’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Imminence:

imminence: the quality or fact of being imminent [of an event, esp. danger or disaster: impending, soon to happen]. (Oxford Dictionary).


Immaterial:

immaterial (adj.): not formed of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; (n.): immaterialness (adv.): immaterially; (adj.): immateriality. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Impertinent:

impertinent: not pertaining to the matter in hand; irrelevant; out of place; inappropriate, incongruous; absurd. (Oxford Dictionary).

Impertinent:

• impertinent (adj.): 1. intrusively presumptuous; rude; 2. not pertinent; irrelevant; [e.g.]: “an impertinent detail”; (adv.): impertinently; (n.): impertinentness; (synonyms): impertinent, impudent, insolent; these adjectives refer to bold and rude persons or behaviour; impertinent, from its primary meaning of ‘not pertinent’, and, hence, ‘inappropriate or out of place’, has come to imply an unseemly intrusion into the affairs of others; it may also refer to *a presumptuous rudeness toward persons entitled to respect*; [e.g.]: “His impertinent extrapolations”; “An impertinent interpolation”; impudent suggests a bold and shameless rudeness; [e.g.]: “He is an impudent old canon”; insolent suggests the insulting or contemptuous behaviour of an arrogant person; [e.g.]: “The canny commenter repudiated the insolent old canon”. [1350-1400; Middle English from Late Latin impertinēns, ‘not belonging’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary; edited version).

• impertinent (adj. and n.): I. (adj.): 1. not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; not to the point; irrelevant; inapposite; out of place; [e.g.]: “This insertion is very long and vtterly impertinent to the principall matter, and makes a great gappe in the tale”. (Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 141); “To church again, where we had an Oxford man give us a most impertinent sermon upon ‘Cast your bread upon the waters’, etc”. (Pepys, Diary, I. 254); 2. (rare): negligent of or inattentive to the matter in hand; careless; frivolous; [e.g.]: “’Tis not a sign two lovers are together, when they can be so impertinent as to inquire what the world does”. (Pope); 3. contrary to the rules of propriety or good breeding; uncivil; speaking or acting presumptuously or offensively; pragmatical; meddling; as, impertinent behaviour; an impertinent boy; [e.g.]: “He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him”. (Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”, vi); (synonyms): 3. impertinent, officious, saucy, impudent, insolent, rude, unmannerly, pert, bold; impertinent means forward, intrusive, generally from curiosity, but sometimes with undesired advice, etc.; officious means forward to offer and undertake service where it is neither needed nor desired; a busybody may be either impertinent or officious, or both; see impudence; II. (n.): one who interferes in what does not concern him; one who is rude, uncivil, or offensive in behaviour; a meddler; an intruder; [e.g.]: “We are but Curious Impertinents in the case of Futurity; ’tis not our business to be guessing what the State of Souls shall be, but to be doing what may make our own State happy; we cannot be Knowing, but we can be Virtuous”. (Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, “Letters of Mr. Wycherley & Mr. Pope”, Part II, page 167; 1735, London). [= French impertinent = Spanish, Portuguese, Italian impertinente, from Latin impertinen(t-)s, inpertinen(t-)s, ‘not belonging’, from in-, privative + pertinen(t-)s, ‘belonging’; see pertinent]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impertinent (adj.): 1. exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold; [e.g.]: “scolded the impertinent child for talking rudely”; 2. not pertinent; (synonyms): irrelevant, extraneous, immaterial, impertinent; these adjectives mean not pertinent to the subject under consideration; [e.g.]: “ignored irrelevant comments during the discussion”; “a question extraneous to the topic of the presentation”; “an objection which was declared to be immaterial to the case”; “deleted the impertinent facts from the report”; (adv.): impertinently. [Middle English, irrelevant, from Old French, from Late Latin impertinēns, impertinent-, from Latin in-, ‘not’ + Latin pertinēns, pertinent-, ‘pertinent’, present participle of pertinēre, ‘to pertain’, from per- + tenēre, ‘to hold’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• impertinent (adj.): 1. rude; insolent; impudent; 2. irrelevant or inappropriate; (adv.): impertinently. [C14: from Latin impertinēns, ‘not belonging’, from Latin im-, ‘not’ + pertinēre, ‘to be relevant’, from per- + tenēre, ‘to hold’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• impertinent (adj.): 1. not pertinent to the matter under consideration; [e.g.]: “She mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point”; (synonyms): extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal; [e.g.]: “It was an issue extraneous to the debate”; “The asking price was immaterial to the question”; irrelevant (having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue); [e.g.]: “It was an irrelevant comment”; “Those irrelevant allegations”; 2. improperly forward or bold; [e.g.]: “It is impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup”; (synonyms): impudent, fresh, wise, overbold, smart, sassy, saucy; [e.g.]: “He was an impudent boy given to insulting strangers”; “Now, don’t you be fresh with me as well”; “Don’t get wise with me!”; forward (used of temperament or behaviour; lacking restraint or modesty); [e.g.]: “She was a forward child badly in need of discipline”; 3. characterised by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; (synonyms): irreverent, pert, saucy; [e.g.]: “The visitor had a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner”; spirited (displaying animation, vigour, or liveliness). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• impertinent (adj.): 1. rude, forward, bold, brazen, pert, disrespectful, presumptuous, insolent, impolite, impudent, discourteous, uncivil, unmannerly; (informal): cheeky, saucy, fresh, flip; (U.S. informal): sassy; (U.S. & Canad. slang): lippy; [e.g.]: “I don’t care for strangers who ask impertinent questions”; (antonyms): mannerly, polite, respectful; 2. inappropriate, irrelevant, incongruous, inapplicable; [e.g.]: “Since we already knew this, to tell us again seemed impertinent to us”; (antonyms): important, appropriate, relevant, vital, pertinent, germane. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

• impertinent (adj.): 1. rude and disrespectful; (synonyms): assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart; (informal): brassy, flip, fresh, smart-alecky, snippety, snippy, uppish, uppity; (slang): wise; 2. not relevant or pertinent to the subject; not applicable; (synonyms): extraneous, immaterial, inapplicable, irrelevant; (idioms): beside the point, neither here nor there. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

• impertinently (adv.): in an impertinent manner; irrelevantly; officiously; presumptuously. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impertinence (n.): 1. the condition or quality of being impertinent or irrelevant; the condition of not being appropriate to the matter in hand; irrelevance; [e.g.]: “They [Virginian courts] used to come to the merits of the cause as soon as they could without injustice, never admitting such impertinences of form and nicety as were not absolutely necessary”. (Robert Beverley, 1673-1722, “The History of Virginia: In Four Parts”, part iv. para 22); 2. that which is impertinent; that which is irrelevant or out of place as in speech, writing, or manners; [e.g.]: “Nothing is more easy than to represent as impertinences any parts of learning that have no immediate relation to the happiness or convenience of mankind”. (Joseph Addison, “Dialogues Upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals”, i.); “We were taken up next morning in seeing the impertinences of the carnival”. (John Evelyn, “Memoirs of John Evelyn”, Feb. 27, 1645, page 274); 3. conduct unbecoming the person, society, circumstances, etc.; incivility; presumption; forwardness; [e.g.]: “It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all on important subjects”. (Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland’s “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, ii); “Tickets! Presents!—said I.—What tickets, what presents has he had the impertinence to be offering to that young lady? (Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Professor at the Breakfast Table”, iv); 4. (in law): matter (especially in a pleading or an affidavit) which is immaterial in substance, and from prolixity or extent is so inconvenient as to render its presence objectionable; (synonyms): 3. pertness, effrontery, etc.; see impudence. [= French impertinence = Spanish, Portuguese impertinencia = Italian impertinenza, from Medieval Latin impertinentia, from Latin impertinen(t-)s, inpertinen(t-)s, ‘not belonging’; see impertinent]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impertinence (tr.v.; pret. and pp. impertinenced, ppr. impertinencing): to treat with impertinence, rudeness, or incivility; affect as with impertinence; [e.g.]: “I do not wonder that you are impertinenced by Richcourt”. (Horace Walpole, to Sir Horace Mann, “Letters of Horace Walpole”, 1756, III. 155). [from impertinence, noun]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impertinency (n.): same as impertinence; [e.g.]: “Nevertheless the governour... considered the impertinency and insignificancy of this usage [of drinking to one another] as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it”. (Cotton Mather, 1663-1728, “Magnalia Christi Americana”, book ii. §10, p. 118). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

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An Insightful Example from the World-Wide-Web.
• “While the Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm. The only reason why Christians finally ceased burning witches was the advent of democratic politics and concern for human rights. Modern-day Christianity springs from the fact that even the least educated among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did three-hundred years ago—and much of this knowledge is incompatible with the Christian scriptures”. [italics added]. ~ (from “Letter To The Editor”, by Eddie Sanders, Pheasey Estate; Nov 1, 2016; Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd, England).


Impotent:

• impotent (adj.): (when postpositive, often takes an infinitive) lacking sufficient strength; powerless; (n.): impotence, impotency, impotentness; (adv.): impotently. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Impracticability:

• ‘the quality or condition of being impracticable [not practicable; unable to be carried out or done; impossible in practice]; an impracticable thing’. (Oxford Dictionary).

• ‘impracticability: not practicable; incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed or at command’. (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary).

• ‘impracticability: the quality of not being usable; impracticable, infeasible, unfeasible, unworkable [not capable of being carried out or put into practice]’. (WordNet 3.0).


Imprescriptable:

• imprescriptible (adj.): not founded on prescription; *existing independently of law or convention*; not justly to be violated or taken away; also imprescribable. [= French imprescriptible; as in-³ + prescriptible]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• imprescriptible (adj.): 1. not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, *or by the claims of another founded on prescription*; 2. not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious; [e.g.]: “The imprescriptible laws of the pure reason”. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 1772-1834). [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• imprescriptible (adj.): not subject to prescription: inalienable.~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• imprescriptible (adj.): not founded on prescription; existing independently of law or convention; not justly to be violated or taken away; also imprescribable[†]. [= French imprescriptible = Spanish imprescriptible = Portuguese imprescriptivel = Italian imprescrittibile; as in-³ + prescriptible]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

[†]imprescribable (adj.): same as imprescriptible; [e.g.]: “The ownership of land was by the law of the [Orkney] islands reserved to the descendants of the original occupant, by an inalienable and imprescribable entail”. Westminster Rev., CXXVIII. 688). [from in-³ + prescribable]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).


Impressive:

• impressively (adv.): in an impressive manner; forcibly. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impressively (adv.): in an impressive manner; forcibly; [e.g.]: “The words written on the animal were next repeated impressively, and if the dog began to bark, it was a sign that the lover would gain his objective”. (page 58, “The Black Art”, by Rollo Ahmed; 1936, Long, London); (antonym): unimpressively. [etymology: impressive +‎ -ly]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• impressively (adv.): in a manner to touch sensibility, or to awaken conscience; in a manner to produce a powerful effect on the mind. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary).

• impressively (adv.): in an impressive manner; [e.g.]: “the would-be insurgents capitulated impressively fast”. ~ (Online Mnemonic Dictionary).

• impressiveness (n.): the character or quality of being impressive. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impressive (adj.): making a strong or vivid impression; [e.g.]: “an impressive example”; (antonym): unimpressive (not capable of impressing); [e.g.]: “an unimpressive instance”; 2. producing a strong effect; [e.g.]: “gave an impressive performance”; (synonym): telling; [e.g.]: “a telling gesture”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).>

• impressive (adj.): 1. making or tending to make an impression; having the power of affecting or of exciting attention and feeling; adapted to touch the feelings or the conscience: as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene; [e.g.]: “The faint sound of music and merriment.... but rendered more impressive the monumental silence of the pile which overshadowed me”. (Washington Irving, “The Alhambra”, p. 84); “Few scenes of architectural grandeur are more impressive than the now ruined Palace of the Caesars”. (James Fergusson, 1808-1886, “A History of Architecture in All Countries”, I. 364); 2. (rare): capable of being impressed; susceptible; impressible; [e.g.]: “A soft and impressive fancy”. (John Spencer, 1630-1693, “A Discourse Concerning Prodigies”, p. 75); 3. (in psychology): directed inward; producing an internal effect, or carrying a meaning for the subject of the experience: opposed to expressive; see method of expression (adjective); [e.g.]: “My fear or anger may chance to be expressive to another, but they must of necessity be impressive to me”. (Encyclopaedia. Britannica, XXXII. 65); (synonyms): 1, moving, stirring, affecting, touching, powerful. [= Portuguese, Italian impressivo; as impress¹ + -ive]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• impressively rude (idiomatic term): when someone you have not seen in a while, like a rediscovery on social media from the fifth grade twenty years ago, and you are now in your thirties, posts; [e.g.]: “Wow, I didn’t recognise you without the glasses, bad haircut, etc., you’re looking great now”; [Translation]: “Wow, you used to be very ugly in the fifth grade and now you look, well, wow, you look great”; impressively rude is when someone compliments somebody on how they currently look in such a way as to be insulting about how they used to look in the process; random re-acquaintance with someone they have not seen in a while: [Old Friend]: “Wow, you look so great, now, I barely recognised you because you used to be so fat”; [Ex Classmate]: “Wow ...um... thanks, I guess”; they re-tell the story to a current friend—so and so was impressively rude, when I met her, with her saying to me how great I look now—just how ungreat⁽*⁾ did she think I was before? [posted by The One and Only Pinksnout; December 12, 2009]. ~ (Urban Dictionary Online).

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⁽*⁾ungreat (adj.): not great. [the earliest known use of the adjective ungreat is in the mid 1500s; OED’s only evidence for ungreat is from around 1550, in “Complaynt of Scotland”; ungreat is formed within English, by derivation: un-, prefix + great, adjective]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

⁽*⁾ungreat (adj): not great; (automatically generated examples): “Badenoch: Then poet, unmistakably ungreat, | Thy monster wants a tail. || Malise: A bitter tale, my lord; | The sound of spurs hath curst it: | ’Twill never wag, my lord”. (page 35, “Robert de Bruce”, Act II, Scene I, David Graham, dramatist; 1884); “Such a person might not be very great, he need only be less ungreat than all other Londoners. One can now see why the Anselm argument does not get us from logic to God”. (from “The Oxford Handbook of Atheism”, Stephen Bullivant); “As for the rest, ungreat works of art and mere things, they are another matter”. (page 225, “The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art”, Stephen David Ross); “The doctor wrote down my complete name, place of birth, and the names and places of birth of my parents, grandparents, great grandparents and great great grandparents, including any ungreat forebears I could remember”. (page 36, “Sins of Humour”, Kitch Ortego); “She even suggests that (ungreat) Paula Vallayer-Coster helps us to understand the greatness of Chardin (p. 150). In her Introduction Greer claims that ‘Why were there no great women painters?’ is a false question”. (page 70, “Refractory Girl”; Issues 17-24; 1979); “Most important, the perfect Survivor contestant needs to be ‘ungreat’. That is the key to winning $1 million”. (page 114, “Esquire”, Vol. 146; 2006). [origin & history: from un-, ‘not’ + great, from Middle English greet, ‘great’, ‘large’, from Old English grēat, ‘big’, ‘thick’, ‘coarse’, ‘massive’]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary).


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