heteronomy
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See also: heteronymy
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Noun[edit]
heteronomy (usually uncountable, plural heteronomies)
- The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
- The state of being beholden to external influences.
- (biology) The condition of being heteronomous.
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Translations[edit]
political subjection
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biology
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References[edit]
- “heteronomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- OED 2nd edition 1989