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What does heteronomy mean?

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Noun
  1. The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
  2. The state of being beholden to external influences.
  3. (biology) The condition of being heteronomous.
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They contributed to mitigate the heteronomy of patients in their relation to medicine.
In contrast with the Legislative, the Executive power expresses the heteronomy of the nation in contrast with its autonomy.
Its opposite is not dependence, but heteronomy, where we feel our actions are controlled by external forces, regardless of our own values and interests.
We put into place different implementation categories, according to a sceptre ranging from autonomy to heteronomy and from soft law to hard law.
To make the judgements of others the determining grounds of his own would be heteronomy.
This explains the gap between the two groups of countries on the abscissa going from autonomy to heteronomy.

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