Autonomy vs Agency - What's the difference?
autonomy | agency |
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 capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.
A person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved: instrumentality, means.
The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
As nouns the difference between autonomy and agency
is that autonomy is self-government; freedom to act or function independently while agency is the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.autonomy
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Noun
Synonyms
* (self-government) nationhood, nationality, sovereignty, independenceAntonyms
* (self-government) dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability * (capacity to make independent decisions) heteronomy, incapacityDerived terms
* autonomic * autonomous, autonomouslyagency
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(agencies)- The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Central Intelligence Agency
