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Autonomous vs Nonautonomously - What's the difference?

autonomous | nonautonomously |

As an adjective autonomous

is self-governing intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.

As an adverb nonautonomously is

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

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

    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 . }}