Freedom vs Autonomy - What's the difference?
freedom | autonomy |
(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
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, title= Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
* Milton
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
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.
Autonomy is a synonym of freedom.
As nouns the difference between freedom and autonomy
is that freedom is the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved while autonomy is self-government; freedom to act or function independently.freedom
English
(wikipedia freedom)Noun
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
- I emboldened spake and freedom used.