What does autonomy mean?
Autonomy means (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently..
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/ɔːˈtɒn.ə.mi/ · noun
(uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently..
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.
Use autonomy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Autonomy means (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently..
Common synonyms include liberty, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, self-direction.
Possible antonyms include dependency, heteronomy, servitude, nonautonomy.
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.
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