Definitions
immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
Word origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā, “freedom to use its own laws, independence”), from αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “living under one's own laws, independent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix). By surface analysis, auto- (“self”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
Used in a sentence
“But while assiduously dismissing any though of its own autonomy and proclaiming its victims its judges, it outdoes, in its veiled autocracy, all the excesses of autonomous art.”
“Financial independence and micro retirement have come to represent the autonomy I've created for myself, which is a powerful feeling.”
“...[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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Independent control”8 letters
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