different between autonomy vs independency

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)

1. (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.

   Synonym: sovereignty

   Antonyms: dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability

   1. (government, countable) A self-governing country or region.
2. (philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
3. (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

4. (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).

English

Etymology

independent +? -cy

Noun

independency (countable and uncountable, plural independencies)

1. (obsolete) Independence.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 19:

     All young creatures, thought I, more or less, covet independency […].

   • 1776 August 11, William Howe and Richard Howe, letter sent from North America to Europe with a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence:

     A printed copy of this Declaration of Independency came accidentally to our hands a few days after the dispatch of the Mercury packet, and we have the honor to enclose it.

   • 1860 William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel, the Widower, Chapter 1:

     I found myself in possession of a small independency

2. An independent territory or state.