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Autonomy

Autonomy Meaning & Definition
Autonomy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Autonomy?

[n] immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
[n] personal independence

Synonyms | Synonyms for Autonomy: liberty | self-direction | self-reliance | self-sufficiency

Related Terms | Find terms related to Autonomy: 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

See Also | independence | independency | self-determination | self-government | self-rule

Autonomy In Webster's Dictionary

\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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