autonomy

Other forms of autonomy

plural

autonomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about autonomy

What does autonomy mean?

autonomy means "immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in autonomy?

autonomy has 4 syllables: au-to-no-my. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ɔˈtɑnəmi/.

What is another word for autonomy?

Close synonyms include liberty, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autonomy a common word?

autonomy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.