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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Heteronomy

· Het·er·on·o·my · IPA
01 n. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
  1. 1.
    Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
  2. 2.
    A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.(Metaph.)