unfreedom

noun

un·​freedom "+ 

: lack of freedom

these newcomers—black and white—toiled under some degree of unfreedom … were bound servants for greater or lesser terms

—Oscar Handlin

gains his sense of security by this very unfreedom of conforming

—H. A. Overstreet

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