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self-determiningadjective1(Of a country) having the power or freedom to form its own government: the desire to live in a free, self-determining democracy...- The new states that arose would be neither self-determining nor democratic.
- It would contain an isolated and self-determining community where the inhabitants will grow up from an early age in a very low-tech environment.
- They are planning and creating environmentally sustainable communities that are productive, self-reliant and self-determining.
1.1(Of a person) having the power or freedom to control their own life: the individual feels competent and self-determining...- Despite our attachment to the ideal of the free, self-determining individual, we humans are dependent social beings.
- He does not accept that we are more or less self-determining free agents.
- They can be true to themselves and become self-determining.
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