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Webster 1913 Edition
Heteronomy
Hetˊer-on′o-my
,Noun.
1.
Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; – opposed to autonomy.
2.
(Metaph.)
A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.
Krauth-Fleming.
Definition 2025
heteronomy
heteronomy
English
Noun
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.
Antonyms
Translations
political subjection
being beholden to external influences
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biology
References
- heteronomy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- OED 2nd edition 1989