Autonomous vs Nonautonomously - What's the difference?
autonomous | nonautonomously |
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).
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
, 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 . }}
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)Synonyms
* (governing independently) sovereign, self-governing * (acting on ones own behalf) selfstanding, self-directedAntonyms
* heteronomousDerived terms
* autonomously * semiautonomousSee also
* autonomous area * autonomous navigationnonautonomously
English
Alternative forms
* non-autonomouslyAdverb
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