English-French translations for autonomy

• autonomie
  Sommes-nous du côté de l'autonomie symbolique ou de la véritable autonomie? Are we on the side of token autonomy or real autonomy?
  Tel est précisément l'essence de l'autonomie locale. This is what local autonomy means.
  Il ne peut être question d’autonomie. There can be no question of autonomy.

Definition of autonomy

• Self-government; freedom to act or function independently
• The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision
• 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

Related words

• autonomous
• autonomic
• autonomously
• autonomist
• autonomism
• dysautonomia
• autonomically
• autonomical
• autonomic nervous system