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heteronomous
[ het-uh-ron-uh-muhs ]
adjective
- subject to or involving different laws.
- pertaining to or characterized by heteronomy.
- Biology. subject to different laws of growth or specialization.
heteronomous
/ ˌɛəˈɒɪə /
adjective
- subject to an external law, rule, or authority Compare autonomous
- (of the parts of an organism) differing in the manner of growth, development, or specialization
- (in Kant's philosophy) directed to an end other than duty for its own sake Compare autonomous
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Derived Forms
- ˌٱˈDzԴdzdzܲ, adverb
- ˌٱˈDzԴdz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- e·Dzo·dzܲ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of heteronomous1
First recorded in 1815–25; heteronom(y) + -ous
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Example Sentences
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“The people of King County are of a heterogeneous, heterologous, heteronomous and heteromorphistic nature,” alliterated Rep. A.W.
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Plus take it from me, King County is only going to get more heteronomous and all the rest that that guy chided us for back in ’37.
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Heteronomous, het-er-on′o-mus, adj. differentiated from a common type: subject to the rule of another.—n.
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Only thus is the will truly autonomous, and from every other point of view it is heteronomous.
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An heteronomous becoming is to be traced back to the becoming of the cause which produces it.
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