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heteronomy|-ˈɒnəmɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y: after Gr. derivatives in -νοµια.]
1. Presence of a different law or principle: see quot. 1824.
1824De Quincey Templars' Dial. Wks. IV. 205 He has certainly not vitiated the purity of this principle by the usual heteronomy (if you will allow me a learned word)—i.e., by the introduction of the other and opposite law. 1828–30W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry III. 12 note, Heteroclitical phraseology is the first step to Heteronomy of apperception,—and insanity is nothing more.
2. Moral Philos. Subjection to the rule of another being or power (e.g. of the will to the passions); subjection to external law. Opp. to autonomy.
1798Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 160 Heteronomy, or a foreign legislation, is that, in which not the will itself, but something else determines us to act in a certain manner. 1855Miss Cobbe Ess. Intuit. Mor. 146 It would not be Free Self-legislation (autonomy), but (heteronomy) subservience of the Pure Will to a lower faculty. 1888J. Martineau Study Relig. II. iii. ii. 282 So far as they obtain sway over him, he is under a heteronomy.
3. Biol. The condition of being heteronomous; differentiation from a common primitive type.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 115 The degree to which heteronomy or differentiation is carried out in the various regions of the body [in Copepoda]. |