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| au·ton·o·my [ aw tónnəmee ] |
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1. politics self-government: political independence and self-government
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2. philosophy existence as independent moral agent: personal independence and the capacity to make moral decisions and act on them
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3. literature independence of text: the status of a text as an aesthetic object not to be judged or commented on in the light of external knowledge such as the biography of the author
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| [Early 17th century. < Greek autonomia< autonomos "having its own laws" < nomos "law"] |
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  au·ton·o·mist noun |
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