heteronomy
See also: heteronymy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Noun
heteronomy (usually uncountable, plural heteronomies)
- The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
- The state of being beholden to external influences.
- (biology) The condition of being heteronomous.
Antonyms
Translations
political subjection
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biology
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References
- “heteronomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “heteronomy”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.