Autonomy vs Authenticity - What's the difference?
autonomy | authenticity |
Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
(label) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
(label) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
(label) 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.
The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
(obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
As nouns the difference between autonomy and authenticity
is that autonomy is self-government; freedom to act or function independently while authenticity is the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.autonomy
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Synonyms
* (self-government) nationhood, nationality, sovereignty, independenceAntonyms
* (self-government) dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability * (capacity to make independent decisions) heteronomy, incapacityDerived terms
* autonomic * autonomous, autonomouslyauthenticity
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Noun
(en-noun)- I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
- The authenticity of this painting is questionable.