heteronomous
adj/ˌhɛtəˈɹɒnəməs/
Etymology From heteronomy + -ous.
1
Arising from an external influence, force, or agency; not autonomous.
- The competitive necessity of economies of action mean that surveillance capitalists must use all means available to supplant autonomous action with heteronomous action.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
2
Biology, Natural sciences Of parts of an organism Differing in development or in specialization.
3
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a language Being a dialect of an autonomous language.
- Antonyms
- autonomous
- Derived terms
- heteronomously
- Related terms
- heteronomy