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Noun: heteronomy  `he-tu'ró-nu-mee
  1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; - opposed to autonomy
     
  2. A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires

Derived forms: heteronomies

Encyclopedia: Heteronomy

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