Meaning | freedom from control or influence of another or others. |
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Synonym | independence |
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Attributes | dependent | Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed |
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independent | Free from external control and constraint / constraint |
Narrower | autarky, autarchy | Economic independence as a national policy |
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autonomy, liberty | immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority |
autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency | personal independence |
separateness | Political independence |
Broader | freedom | The condition of being free |
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Spanish | independencia |
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Catalan | independència |
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Adjectives | independent | free from external control and constraint / constraint |
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independent | (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces |