autonomies
- 1Plural of autonomy.
Each of the regional autonomies elects its own legislature.
Negotiators argued over how far the regional autonomies should extend.
Note
A plural that only one meaning of autonomy really invites: the countable one, a self-governing country or region. The other meanings are mass nouns: self-government as a right, the capacity for uncoerced choice, a system's independence of an operator. Pluralizing them turns the idea into separate, bounded grants, like the autonomies of several provinces, each with its own scope. For the condition itself, keep the singular: a demand for autonomy.
autonomies is a form of autonomy
autonomy, noun: The right or condition of governing oneself, and the freedom to act or function independently. Full entry
- Forms
- autonomyautonomies plural
- Spelling
- autonomy → autonomies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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