heteronomous
Americanadjective
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subject to or involving different laws.
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pertaining to or characterized by heteronomy.
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Biology. subject to different laws of growth or specialization.
adjective
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subject to an external law, rule, or authority Compare autonomous
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(of the parts of an organism) differing in the manner of growth, development, or specialization
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(in Kant's philosophy) directed to an end other than duty for its own sake Compare autonomous
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Etymology
Origin of heteronomous
First recorded in 1815–25; heteronom(y) + -ous
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Or he may try to bury his anxieties in a "heteronomous" religion that offers him readymade certitudes for his uncertainties.
From Time Magazine Archive
An heteronomous becoming is to be traced back to the becoming of the cause which produces it.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
The wisest requirements seem to the child more or less alien, arbitrary, heteronomous, artificial, falsetto.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
Only thus is the will truly autonomous, and from every other point of view it is heteronomous.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Whether we call it nature or name it God, this law transcends the becoming of the plant, its heteronomous becoming as we called it, and is properly the becoming of something else.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
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