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autonomy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (autonomí?, “freedom to use its own laws, independence”), from ????????? (autónomos, “living under one's own laws, independent”) +? -??? (-í?, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix). Surface analysis auto- (“self”) +? -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t?n.?m.i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??t?n.?m.i/
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??t?n.?m.i/
- Rhymes: -?n?mi
Noun
autonomy (countable and uncountable, plural autonomies)
- (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
- Synonym: sovereignty
- Antonyms: dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability
- (government, countable) A self-governing country or region.
- (philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
- (mechanics, uncountable) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
- Antonyms: heteronomy, incapacity
- (Christianity, uncountable) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
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References
- “autonomy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “autonomy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
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futility
English
Etymology
futile +? -ity
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
futility (usually uncountable, plural futilities)
- (uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.
- His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.
- (countable) Something, especially an act, that is futile.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy
- No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn. […] No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like?
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy
- (uncountable) Unimportance.
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