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Etymology
From hetero- + nomos.
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Adjective
heteronomous (comparative more heteronomous, superlative most heteronomous)
- Arising from an external influence, force, or agency; not autonomous.
2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:The competitive necessity of economies of action mean that surveillance capitalists must use all means available to supplant autonomous action with heteronomous action.
- (biology, of parts of an organism) Differing in development or in specialization.
- (linguistics, of a language) Being a dialect of an autonomous language.
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