Autonomy

Autonomy

Taking commands from only one authoritative source, oneself, and rejecting all attempts to override one's autonomy. Moral autonomy entails making the final decisions about what one should do. Political autonomy entails having the liberty to act upon the decision one has made.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Anthropology
Category: Cultural anthropology
Company:
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

autonomy

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Taking commands from only one authoritative source, oneself, and rejecting all attempts to override one's autonomy. Moral autonomy entails making the final decisions about what ...

autonomy

Education; SAT vocabulary

Self-government.

autonomy

Language; Linguistics

A termed coined by Alan Cruse in his approach to lexical semantics. Refers to the degree of conventionalization associated with a word-meaning that secures relative ...

autonomy

Geography; Physical geography

The right of self-government. Exists at nation-state and sub-national, regional levels.

autonomy

Politics; Political Science

A limited form of self-government. In the U.S. states have a certain autonomy, which allows them to make their own laws regarding local matters. In international affairs, the ...

autonomy

Philosophy; General philosophy

Autonomy is the right and capacity of a person, country or people to determine their own actions. Autonomy was in use as a description of nations and countries in the early 17th ...

Gauls

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through to the ...

Picts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest of ...

Celts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Celts were an Indo-European and etho-linguistically diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages. By the first millennium AD ...

Cherokee

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, North and South Carolina and East Tennessee). Historians and ...

Iceni

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Iceni (or Eceni) were a British tribe who inhabited an read of East Anglia corresponding roughly to present day Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The ...

pecking and grinding

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The process of manufacturing heavy-duty stone tools (bowls, mauls etc. ) From granular rocks by prolonged hammering with a hammerstone. Abrasive techniques might be used to finish ...

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L

0
Terms
0
Blossaries
1
Followers

Industry/Domain: Economy Category: International economics

Fiscal cliff

Fiscal cliff is a term used to describe the U.S. economic situation in which a series of tax relief laws, if unchanged, will expire at midnight on ...