Autonomy vs Subjugation - What's the difference?
autonomy | subjugation |
Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
(label) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
(label) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
(label) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
The act of subjugating.
The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jan Sapp)
, title=Race Finished
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164
, magazine=(American Scientist)
As nouns the difference between autonomy and subjugation
is that autonomy is self-government; freedom to act or function independently while subjugation is the act of subjugating.autonomy
English
Noun
Synonyms
* (self-government) nationhood, nationality, sovereignty, independenceAntonyms
* (self-government) dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability * (capacity to make independent decisions) heteronomy, incapacityDerived terms
* autonomic * autonomous, autonomouslysubjugation
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation , exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}