HETERONOMY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

2.
n.

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. Krauth-Fleming.