| NOUN | state | independency, independence | freedom from control or influence of another or others |
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| Meaning | freedom from control or influence of another or others. | |
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| Synonym | independence | |
| Attributes | dependent | Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed |
| independent | Free from external control and constraint / constraint | |
| Narrower | autarky, autarchy | Economic independence as a national policy |
| 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 |
| Spanish | independencia | |
| Catalan | independència | |
| Adjectives | independent | free from external control and constraint / constraint |
| independent | (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | |
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