Autonomy vs Empowered - What's the difference?
autonomy | empowered |
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.
(US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
(US) Acting with confidence.
(empower)