Meaning of AUTONOMY
| Pronunciation: | | o'tânumee
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- [n] immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- [n] personal independence
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| | Synonyms: | | liberty, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency |
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| | See Also: | | independence, independency, self-determination, self-government, self-rule | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Au*ton"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autonomie. See
{Autonomous}.]
1. The power or right of self-government; self-government, or
political independence, of a city or a state.
2. (Metaph.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of
morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give
law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the
true nature and only possible proof of liberty. --Fleming.
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| | Definition: | | taking commands from only one authoritative source, oneself, and rejecting all attempts to override one's autonomy. Moral autonomy entails making the final decisions about what one should do. Political autonomy entails having the liberty to act upon the decision one has made. |
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute monarchy, aristocracy, autarchy, autarky, autocracy, autonomousness, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, Declaration of Independence, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, free will, garrison state, gerontocracy, gratuitousness, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, independence, individualism, inner-direction, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, rugged individualism, self-action, self-activity, self-containment, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, social democracy, spontaneity, spontaneousness, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, unforcedness, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, welfare state |
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