heteronomyn.
/hɛtəˈrɒnəmi/ 1. Presence of a different law or principle: see quot. 1824.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > presence of a different law or principle
heteronomy1799
1799 Monhtly Rev. Jan. 66 (note) Heteroclitical phraseology is the first step to heteronomy of apperception,—and insanity is nothing more.
1824 T. De Quincey Dialogues Three Templars in London Mag. Apr. 353/2 He has certainly not vitiated the purity of this principle by the usual heteronomy (if you will allow me a learned word) i.e. by the introduction of the other and opposite law.
2. Moral Philosophy. Subjection to the rule of another being or power (e.g. of the will to the passions); subjection to external law. Opposed to autonomy.
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society > authority > subjection > [noun]
dangera1375
subjectiona1398
subalternation1483
vassalry1594
subordination1595
vassalage1595
subordination1599
subordinacy1612
subserviency1646
subjectedness1647
subservience1648
vassalation1648
subduedness1653
subordinancy1680
subservientness1727
heteronomy1798
subordinateness1876
1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 160 Heteronomy, or a foreign legislation, is that, in which not the will itself, but something else determines us to act in a certain manner.
1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 146 It would not be Free Self-legislation (autonomy), but (heteronomy) subservience of the Pure Will to a lower faculty.
1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. II. iii. ii. 282 So far as they obtain sway over him, he is under a heteronomy.
3. Biology. The condition of being heteronomous; differentiation from a common primitive type.
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1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 115 The degree to which heteronomy or differentiation is carried out in the various regions of the body [in Copepoda].
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