Definition of "freeness"

freeness

noun
usually uncountable, plural freenesses
1. The state or condition of being free (unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, unobstructed, or free-spirited).
  Quotations
  Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors.[sic]
  1722, Benjamin Franklin (as Silence Dogood), "Silence Dogood, No. 8", The New-England Courant, July 9, 1722
  Vern could appreciate his freeness. He was a spirited, buoyant thing.
  2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 163
2. Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor.
3. Liberality; generosity.
4. Gratuitousness.