Crossword-Solution: AUTONOMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Autonomy | n. | The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state. |
| Autonomy | n. | The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “AUTONOMY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FREEDOM of the will | 1 answer |
| Parent/teen sticking point | 1 answer |
| Personal independence | 1 answer |
| RIGHT of self-government | 1 answer |
| SELF-government, right of | 1 answer |
| Self-goverment | 1 answer |
| personal freedom | 1 answer |
| SELF-government | 3 answers |
| nationhood | 4 answers |
| AUTARCHY | 5 answers |
| national status | 8 answers |
| Independence | 36 answers |
| Ascendancy. | 64 answers |
| Realm | 66 answers |
| Right | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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Sentences with AUTONOMY (5)
The government has promised far-reaching reforms, including giving public-sector companies more autonomy, encouraging private-sector activity, boosting gas and nonhydrocarbon exports, and proposing a major overhaul of the banking and financial systems, but to date has made little progress.
Instead of permitting considerable local autonomy as the British did, the Spanish Council of the Indies in Madrid assumed a stance of illiberal, paternal, bureaucratic control.
Air- port management wasn't always fond of their autonomy, but the tower's concern was safety at all costs.
That individual INDEPENDENCE, or the autonomy of the private reason, originating in the difference in talents and capacities, can exist without danger within the limits of the law.
This dependence is in other words the loss of autonomy; the farmers became prisoners and lackeys totally controlled by the politicos, the co-ops, the manufacturers, the trading companies, and the consumers, and their will to produce rice declined precipitously.
Quotes with AUTONOMY (3)
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince mysel…
And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. Indeed, horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And, all said, we must face up to it: horror is more real than we are.
On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data of the world of sense or from the whole compass of the theoretical use of reason, and this fact points to a pure intelligible world―indeed, it defines it positively and enable us to know something of it, namely a law. This law gives to the sensible world, as sensuous nature (as this concerns rational beings), the form of an intelligible world, i.e., …
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1991–2010).