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Onefold vs Autonomous - What's the difference?

onefold | autonomous |

As adjectives the difference between onefold and autonomous

is that onefold is constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme while autonomous is self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.

onefold

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.
  • Consisting of a single undivided part; whole; complete.
  • Simple, plain, straightforward; single, singular; unmixed, unadulterated; honest, sincere.
  • *2005 , Boeve, Geybels, Van den Bossche, Encountering transcendence :
  • There the soul is onefold , pure and chaste, and empty of all things.
  • *1844 , Robert Rollock, Select works of Robert Rollock :
  • Ye see how ready men are to misconstrue and pervert the onefold meaning of the Lord.

    Antonyms

    *(l)

    autonomous

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.
  • Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
  • (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
  • Synonyms

    * (governing independently) sovereign, self-governing * (acting on ones own behalf) selfstanding, self-directed

    Antonyms

    * heteronomous

    Derived terms

    * autonomously * semiautonomous

    See also

    * autonomous area * autonomous navigation