noun. The condition or quality of being autonomous; independence.

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noun. Self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination.

noun. Self-government with respect to local or internal affairs.

noun. A self-governing state, community, or group.

noun. The power or right of self-government, whether in a community which elects its own magistrates and makes its own laws, or in an individual who acts according to his own will.

noun. A self-governing community.

noun. An autonomous condition; the condition of being subject only to its own laws; especially, in biology, organic independence.

noun. In the philos. of Kant, the doctrine that the moral law is one which reason imposes upon itself a priori, that is, independently of sense and sense-experience, and is therefore absolute and immutable: opposed to heteronomy (which see).

noun. The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

noun. 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.

noun. Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.

noun. The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.

noun. The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.

noun. 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.

noun. personal independence

noun. immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

"The term autonomy is most apt: its Greek roots essentially mean "being a law unto oneself.""

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