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▸ noun: (government, countable) A self-governing country or region.
▸ noun: (philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
▸ noun: (mechanics, uncountable) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
▸ noun: (Christianity, uncountable) 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.
Similar:
self-sufficiency,
self-reliance,
self-direction,
liberty,
independence,
autonomous,
heteronomy,
sovereignty,
freedom,
Independency,
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Opposite:
Types:
individual autonomy,
political autonomy,
cultural autonomy,
economic autonomy,
personal autonomy,
academic autonomy,
artistic autonomy,
more...
Phrases:
Adjectives:
local,
greater,
individual,
personal,
political,
relative,
more,
regional,
complete,
considerable,
national
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