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Meaning of "heteronomy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HETERONOMY

heteronomy  [ˌhɛtərˈɒnəmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETERONOMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heteronomy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETERONOMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

heteronomy

Heteronomy

Heteronomy refers to action that is influenced by a force outside the individual. Immanuel Kant, drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, considered such an action nonmoral. It is the counter/opposite of autonomy. Philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis contrasted heteronomy from autonomy in noting that while all societies create their own institutions, autonomous societies are those in which their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute. In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority.

Definition of heteronomy in the English dictionary

The first definition of heteronomy in the dictionary is subjection to an external law, rule, or authority. Other definition of heteronomy is direction to an end other than duty for its own sake. Heteronomy is also the fact or state of differing in the manner of growth, development, or specialization.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETERONOMY


aeronomy
ɛəˈrɒnəmɪ
agronomy
əˈɡrɒnəmɪ
archaeoastronomy
ˌɑːkɪəʊəˈstrɒnəmɪ
astronomy
əˈstrɒnəmɪ
autonomy
ɔːˈtɒnəmɪ
bionomy
baɪˈɒnəmɪ
chemotaxonomy
ˌkiːməʊtækˈsɒnəmɪ
craniognomy
ˌkreɪnɪˈɒnəmɪ
Deuteronomy
ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪ
economy
ɪˈkɒnəmɪ
folksonomy
fəʊkˈsɒnəmɪ
gastronomy
ɡæsˈtrɒnəmɪ
isonomy
aɪˈsɒnəmɪ
physiognomy
ˌfɪzɪˈɒnəmɪ
plutonomy
pluːˈtɒnəmɪ
taphonomy
təˈfɒnəmɪ
taxonomy
tækˈsɒnəmɪ
teleonomy
ˌtiːlɪˈɒnəmɪ
theonomy
θɪˈɒnəmɪ
zoonomy
zəʊˈɒnəmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETERONOMY

heterolysis
heterolytic
heterolytic fission
heteromerous
heteromorphic
heteromorphism
heteromorphous
heteromorphy
heteronomous
heteronomously
heteronym
heteronymous
heteronymously
Heteroousian
heterophil
heterophile
heterophony
heterophyllous
heterophylly
heteroplasia

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETERONOMY

antinomy
black economy
cash economy
command economy
false economy
free-enterprise economy
free-market economy
infrared astronomy
knowledge economy
market economy
mixed economy
molecular gastronomy
new economy
planned economy
political economy
principle of economy
radio astronomy
service economy
subsistence economy
the principle of economy
X-ray astronomy

Synonyms and antonyms of heteronomy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heteronomy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETERONOMY

Find out the translation of heteronomy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heteronomy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heteronomy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heteronomía
570 millions of speakers

English

heteronomy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heteronomy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

heteronomy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гетерономия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heteronomia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heteronomy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétéronomie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heteronomi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heteronomie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

他律
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

heteronomy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heteronomi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heteronomy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புறச்சட்ட உரிமைநிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेटेरोनियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heteronomi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eteronomia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heteronomia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гетерономії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heteronomiei
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ετερονομίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heteronomie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heteronomi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heteronomy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heteronomy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETERONOMY»

The term «heteronomy» is normally little used and occupies the 140.168 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETERONOMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heteronomy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heteronomy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heteronomy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETERONOMY»

Discover the use of heteronomy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heteronomy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rights and Christian Ethics
colin gunton: rights, heteronomy and autonomy Is there not a contradiction in stressing freedom and rights so much and then reducing these to obligation? For most people having obligations, being obliged to do things, is a far cry from being  ...
Kieran Cronin, 1992
2
Kant on Happiness in Ethics
Consequently, principles of autonomy are moral and principles of heteronomy are not moral. Since the identification between autonomy and categorical principles and between heteronomy and hypothetical principles is so straightforward, it is ...
Victoria S. Wike, 1994
3
Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral ...
Forms of Heteronomy These three forms of autonomy entail three kinds of heteronomy. "Personal autonomy" is opposed to a heteronomy that distorts or destroys the personal determination of an action: ignorance, compulsion, violence, fear ...
Martin Rhonheimer, 2000
4
Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue
Autonomy itself would not be possible, nor would respect for the law (sole 'cause' of this respect) in the strictly Kantian meaning of these words.11 For Derrida in his Levinasian mode, heteronomy is prior to autonomy and is the condition for the  ...
Merold Westphal, 2008
5
Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics
But to maintain that it is intrinsic to human personality is still not to free it from the incursions of heteronomy. For Levinas, heteronomy is not the imposition of a divine will, but a revelation through the appearance of other persons (DL 33/DF 17).
Edith Wyschogrod, 2000
6
Dialectology
1.5 Autonomy and heteronomy A useful concept in looking at the relationship between the notions of a 'language' and 'dialect continuum' is the concept of heteronomy. Heteronomy is simply the opposite of autonomy, and thus refers to ...
J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, 1998
7
A New Dictionary of Christian Theology
Heteronomy asserts that man, being unable to act according to universal reason, must be subjected to a law, strange and superior to him. Theonomy asserts that the superior law is. at the same time, the innermost law of man himself, rooted in  ...
Alan Richardson, John Bowden, 1983
8
In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century
to Kant, heteronomy is worthless, destroying the essence of morality. Even when we behave rightly because we fear a master, we do not behave morally, since we obey someone else's will. Kant hopes that a rational preparation will lead the ...
Melvyn New, Robert Bernasconi, Richard A. Cohen, 2001
9
The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology
The question of autonomy and heteronomy in moral theology is a contemporary one with vast implications. It is connected with the question of Christian morality, its existence and specificity, and with the correlative problem of the constitution of  ...
Servais Pinckaers, John Berkman, Craig Steven Titus, 2005
10
Derrida and the Time of the Political
of a heteronomy, of a law and decision of the other. It is predicated on the power of the injunction that ''comes upon me from the high.''∞≠ Justice thus means a radical dissymmetry, a radical unsubstitutability. It means sheer heteronomy.
Pheng Cheah, Suzanne Guerlac, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETERONOMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heteronomy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cosmos, Crisis, and Thanksgiving: A Reflection on Laudato Si'
Any external constraint is viewed as a kind of heteronomy, an alienation of reason and freedom. John Paul II argues that, as participants in a ... «Catholic World Report, Jun 15»
2
Old Conflicts within New Borders
People living in the south hoped their new status would deliver on long-held dreams of liberation from Khartoum's heteronomy, better living ... «Qantara.de, Jun 15»
3
Ultimatums Will Only Aggravate Greece's Problems
After all, Immanuel Kant, perhaps Germany's greatest philosopher, made a critical distinction between heteronomy — following laws made by ... «New York Times, May 15»
4
America and Russia clash in Macedonia
... countries in the region and beyond - where the heteronomy and the exploitation of humans by humans is the main characteristic of the state. «Pravda, May 15»
5
CIO: Yet another reason to budget for an Apple Watch
Pointing to the BYOD-driven iOS invasion of enterprise shops he confirms that heteronomy is the new enterprise orthodoxy: “[Apple] made their ... «Computerworld, May 15»
6
The World Beyond Your Head
Whereas in the real world, Crawford writes, “we are subject to the heteronomy of things; the hazards of material reality,” what Kant has given us ... «Patheos, May 15»
7
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late April
If I were to guess, I might say the piece is about heteronomy, relying on authority to make one's decisions and abandoning agency. Or not. «Locus Online, Apr 15»
8
Democracy Barometer: a new approach to evaluating the quality of …
Freedom refers to the absence of heteronomy, and freedom rights are above all rights which protect an individual from infringements by the ... «Democratic Audit UK, Apr 15»
9
Adventurous Lectionary – Lent 3 – March 8, 2015
Theologian Paul Tillich spoke of three types of law: autonomy, or self-determination, based primarily on my personal values; heteronomy, the ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
10
Progressives and Liberals Should Be Wary of Pope Francis (BOOK …
In any event, "Guardini saw the drama of the modern age [presumably the Enlightenment] as a pendulum swing between heteronomy (placing ... «OpEdNews, Jan 15»

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