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countable and uncountable, plural unfreedoms
(uncountable) The condition of being unfree. quotations examples
It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.
2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, page 528
(countable) A particular limitation of one's freedom. quotations examples
Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society.
2003, Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom, page 340