Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Autonomy or self-governance (3)
adj
Not sphexish; capable, as the higher animals are, of monitoring one's own thought processes and avoiding pitfalls such as infinite loops.
n
National economic self-sufficiency.
adj
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
n
Autonomy.
n
(philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
adv
Apparently but not actually.
n
The quality of being egocentric.
n
Something with no other purpose than to be itself.
adj
independent, autonomous
adj
Focused on other people, as opposed to the self.
adj
Providing a comfortable livelihood.
adj
Possessing enough wealth that one does not need financial support from others or income from employment.
n
An independent entity.
adj
Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
adj
(metalogic) Of self-sufficient causality/causation.
n
The state, quality, or condition of being self-centered; concern only for oneself
adj
Not requiring external or additional support; complete in itself.
adj
Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint; directed for oneself.
v
To drive autonomously.
n
Development by inherent power or quality.
n
inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; an attribute peculiar to God.
adj
Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
adj
Formed by itself.
adj
(philosophy, India) Self-aware; knowable by itself.
adj
Powered by itself without requiring an external power source.
adj
Of an organization, establishing standards for itself rather than having them legislated for it by government.
adj
(grammar) Lacking affixes; being a stem.
adj
Structured by itself.
adj
Able to provide for oneself independently of others; not needing external support.
adv
In a self-sufficient manner.
n
The capacity of independent support; self-sufficiency.
adj
isolate, isolated, alone
adj
Alternative form of self-standing [Standing or existing by one's own power, ability or competence; not reliant on others; independent.]
n
(rare) A device that can operate on its own, rather than as an accessory for another device.
adj
Depending on itself; independent.
n
That which is unscientific or pseudoscientific.
adj
Involving subjective moral evaluations, especially when these evaluations are implicit and unexamined.

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