Borrowed fromAncient Greekαὐτονομῐ́ᾱ(autonomĭ́ā,“freedom to use its own laws, independence”), fromαὐτόνομος(autónomos,“living under one's own laws, independent”) +-ῐ́ᾱ(-ĭ́ā,“-y, -ia”,nominal suffix). Bysurface analysis,auto-(“self”) +-nomy(“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
autonomy (countable anduncountable,pluralautonomies)
- (uncountable) Theright orcondition ofself-government;freedom toact orfunctionindependently.
- Antonyms:dependency,heteronomy,servitude,nonautonomy,inoperability
- Coordinate term:sovereignty
1951,Theodor W. Adorno,Minima Moralia[1], Verso, published2005, page200:But while assiduously dismissing any though of its ownautonomy and proclaiming its victims its judges, it outdoes, in its veiled autocracy, all the excesses of autonomous art.
2025 May 26, Joshua Nelken-Zitser, “I 'micro-retired' in my 30s by investing every dollar from my side income. It sounds almost too simple to be true, but it works.”, inBusiness Insider[2]:Financial independence and micro retirement have come to represent theautonomy I've created for myself, which is a powerful feeling.
- (government, countable) Aself-governingcountry orregion.
- (philosophy, uncountable) Thecapacity to make aninformed,uncoerceddecision.
- (mechanics, uncountable) Thecapacity of a system to make adecision about its actions without theinvolvement of anothersystem oroperator.
- Antonyms:heteronomy,incapacity
1992,Steven Weinberg,Dreams of a Final Theory, Pantheon Books, page41:...[T]he fact that a scientific theory finds applications to a wide variety of different phenomena does not imply anything about the autonomy of this theory from deeper physical laws.
- (Christianity, uncountable) Thestatus of achurch whose highest-rankingbishop isappointed by thepatriarch of themother church, but which isself-governing in all other respects. Compareautocephaly.
self-government
- Afrikaans:outonomie (af)
- Albanian:autonomi (sq) f
- Arabic:اِسْتِقْلال (ar) m(istiqlāl),تَحَرُّر m(taḥarrur)
- Armenian:ինքնավարություն (hy)(inkʻnavarutʻyun)
- Asturian:autonomía f
- Azerbaijani:muxtariyyət
- Belarusian:аўтано́мія f(awtanómija)
- Bulgarian:автоно́мия (bg) f(avtonómija),незави́симост (bg) f(nezavísimost)
- Catalan:autonomia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:自治 (zh)(zìzhì)
- Czech:územní samospráva f,autonomie (cs) f
- Danish:autonomi n,selvstyre n
- Dutch:autonomie (nl) f
- Esperanto:aŭtonomio
- Estonian:autonoomia (et)
- Faroese:sjálvstýri n,sjálvræði n
- Finnish:autonomia (fi),itsehallinto (fi)
- French:autonomie (fr) f
- Galician:autonomía (gl) f
- Georgian:ავტონომია(avṭonomia)
- German:Autonomie (de) f
- Greek:αυτονομία (el) f(aftonomía)
- Hebrew:אוֹטוֹנוֹמְיָה (he) f(otonomia)
- Hindi:स्वायत्त (hi)(svāyatt),स्वराज (hi)(svarāj)
- Hungarian:önrendelkezés (hu),autonómia (hu)
- Icelandic:sjálfræði n,sjálfsstjórn f
- Ido:autonomeso (io)
- Indonesian:otonomi (id)
- Irish:féinriail f
- Italian:autonomia (it) f
- Japanese:自治 (ja)(じち, jichi)
- Kazakh:мұхтарият(mūxtariät),автономия(avtonomiä)
- Korean:자치(自治) (ko)(jachi);자율성(自律性) (ko)(jayulseong)
- Kyrgyz:автономия (ky)(avtonomiya)
- Latvian:autonomija f
- Lithuanian:autonomija f
- Macedonian:автономија f(avtonomija)
- Maltese:awtonomija f
- Maori:mana motuhake
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:selvstyre n,sjølstyre n,autonomi (no) m
- Nynorsk:sjølvstyre n,autonomi m
- Occitan:autonomia (oc) f
- Persian:خودمختاری (fa)(xodmoxtâri)
- Polish:autonomia (pl) f,autonomiczność (pl) f
- Portuguese:autonomia (pt) f
- Romanian:autonomie (ro) f
- Russian:автоно́мия (ru) f(avtonómija),незави́симость (ru) f(nezavísimostʹ),самоуправле́ние (ru) n(samoupravlénije)
- Scottish Gaelic:fèin-ùghdarras m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:аутоно̀мија f
- Roman:autonòmija (sh) f
- Sicilian:autunumìa f
- Slovak:autonómia f
- Slovene:avtonomija f
- Spanish:autonomía (es) f
- Swedish:autonomi (sv) c
- Tagalog:awtonomiya
- Tajik:автономия (tg)(avtonomiya),мухторият (tg)(muxtoriyat)
- Telugu:స్వయంప్రతిపత్తి(svayampratipatti)
- Thai:อัตตาณัติ,ภาวะอิสระ,การปกครองตนเอง
- Turkish:özerklik (tr),otonomi (tr)
- Turkmen:özbaşdaklyk
- Ukrainian:автоно́мія (uk) f(avtonómija)
- Uzbek:avtonomiya (uz),muxtoriyat (uz)
- Vietnamese:tự trị (vi)
- Yiddish:אויטאָנאָמיע f(oytonomye)
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capacity for individual decision
