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Autonomy vs Nonautonomously - What's the difference?

autonomy | nonautonomously |

As a noun autonomy

is self-government; freedom to act or function independently.

As an adverb nonautonomously is

in a manner that is not autonomous, or that lacks autonomy.

autonomy

English

Noun

  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (self-government) nationhood, nationality, sovereignty, independence

    Antonyms

    * (self-government) dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability * (capacity to make independent decisions) heteronomy, incapacity

    Derived terms

    * autonomic * autonomous, autonomously

    nonautonomously

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-autonomously

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a manner that is not autonomous, or that lacks autonomy
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, George Sher, chapter=Liberal neutrality and the value of autonomy, Liberalism, editor=G.W. Smith citation
  • , passage=Because of this, a person's activities will always lack value when his government has induced him to pursue them nonautonomously'; but they will ''not'' always lack value when his government has ''not'' induced him to pursue them ' nonautonomously . }}