Crossword clues for autonomy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autonomy \Au*ton"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autonomie. See Autonomous.]
The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, of states, from Greek autonomia "independence," noun of quality from autonomos "independent, living by one's own laws," from auto- "self" (see auto-) + nomos "custom, law" (see numismatics). Of persons, from 1803.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Self-government; freedom to act or function independently. 2 (label en philosophy) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. 3 (label en mechanics) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator. 4 (label en Christianity) 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 (term autocephaly English).
WordNet
n. immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence [syn: liberty]
personal independence [syn: self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency]
Wikipedia
Autonomy ( Ancient Greek: αὐτονομία autonomia from αὐτόνομος autonomos from αὐτο- auto- "self" and νόμος nomos, "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's own law") is a concept found in moral, political, and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision.
Autonomy is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision; or, in politics, self-government.
Autonomy may also refer to:
- Autonomy (Eastern Christianity), the status of a hierarchical church
- Autonomy (novel), a 2009 novel based on the Doctor Who TV series
- HP Autonomy, an enterprise software company owned by Hewlett Packard, previously called Autonomy Corporation
- Autonomy, a 1919 play by Philip Barry
- "Autonomy", a song by The Buzzcocks on their album Another Music in a Different Kitchen, covered by The Offspring
Autonomy is a BBC Books original novel written by Daniel Blythe and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor without an official companion. It was released on 3 September 2009, alongside The Taking of Chelsea 426 and The Krillitane Storm. The Doctor visits Hyperville and encounters his nemesis, the Autons.
Autonomy is the ninth full-length studio album by Indonesian experimental metal band Kekal, first released on 19 December 2012 as CD version by German record label Whirlwind Records and then digitally by Indonesian record label Yes No Wave Music on June 29, 2013. This is a second Kekal album being recorded and released without official band members. The digital version of Autonomy can be downloaded for free from Archive.org.
There are two official music videos published for this album: "Futuride" and "Rare Earth Elements", released by the band on YouTube prior to the album's release date.
Usage examples of "autonomy".
The other possibility was that the entry of the German troops would take place in a peaceful manner, in which case it would be easy for the Fuehrer to accord Czechoslovakia a generous way of life of her own, autonomy, and a certain measure of national freedom.
In 1926 when the two commissions promised by the Washington Conference were meeting in Peking and Shanghai to review tariff autonomy and extrality, China hardly had a government.
We may well wonder whether this new autonomy within the culture was the freedom Renan hoped his philological Orientalist science would bring or whether, so far as a critical historian of Orientalism is concerned, it set up a complex affiliation between Orientalism and its putative human subject matter that is based finally on power and not really on disinterested objectivity.
The rigidifying conditions around them are ill-suited to their need for autonomy, and they both give up on their chosen professions, retreating to the obscure periphery of their society.
This did not mean subjectivism, or religious autonomy, for the Reformers held passionately to an ideal of objective truth, but it did mean that every soul had the right to make its personal account with God, without mediation of priest or sacrament.
This is how the multitude gains the power to affirm its autonomy, traveling and expressing itself through an apparatus of widespread, transversal territorial reappropriation.
This subversion is true not only of Marxist theory explicitly engaged in polemics against literary autonomy, but also of deconstructionist theory, even at its most hermetic and abstract.
Paradoxically almost, the linguistic facility which makes Nabokov such an excellent game-player also encourages these readers, through its defamiliarizing effects, to think anew about artistry and reality, subjectivity and alterity, authority and autonomy.
Demands for autonomy and independence for the so-called State of Deseret have been and will continue to be rejected out of hand.
She sees in Saul the househusband who will enable her parental ambitions without disabling her autonomy.
It was necessary to learn how the Louisianians regarded the Federal government, how much prejudice they felt against the Atlantic States, and whether they could be influenced to break away from the Union and to organize a separate autonomy.
There, he would be so far removed from Omdurman that he could establish virtual autonomy while paying lip service to Abdullahi.
The parties met at Rambouillet, France, on February 6, to work out the details of an agreement that would restore autonomy, protect the Kosovars from oppression with a NATO-led operation, disarm the KLA, and allow the Serb army to continue to patrol the border.
Relative autonomy simply refers to a certain flexibility in the face of changing environmental conditions.
In both cases the procedural autonomy, differential application, and territorialized links to various segments of the population, together with the specific and limited exercise of legitimate violence, were not generally in contradiction with the principle of a coherent and unified ordering.