autonomy

Definitions

1. The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
   uncountable
2. Autonomy, self-governance.
3. A self-governing country or region.
   countable
4. The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
   uncountable
5. The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
   uncountable
6. The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“But while assiduously dismissing any though of its own⟳ autonomy and proclaiming its victims its judges, it outdoes, in its veiled autocracy, all the excesses of autonomous art.”

“Financial independence and micro retirement have⟳ come⟳ to represent⟳ the autonomy I've created for myself, which is a powerful feeling.”

“...[T]he fact that a scientific theory finds applications to a wide variety of different phenomena does not imply anything about the autonomy of this theory from deeper physical laws.”

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