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comparative more heteronomous, superlative most heteronomous
Arising from an external influence, force, or agency; not autonomous. quotations examples
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
(biology, of parts of an organism) Differing in development or in specialization.
(linguistics, of a language) Being a dialect of an autonomous language. examples