Self-determination Synonyms

sĕlfdĭ-tûrmə-nāshən
Government of a political unit by its own people
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. self-government
  2. privilege
  3. spontaneity
  4. self-rule
  5. initiative
The capacity to manage one's own affairs, make one's own judgments, and provide for oneself
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. independence
  2. self-reliance
  3. self-sufficiency

Words Related to Self-determination

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Self-determination Sentence Examples

  • The supreme end prescribed by reason in its practical aspect, namely, the complete subordination of the empirical side of nature to the prescripts of morality, demands, as conditions of its possible realization, the permanence of ethical progress in the moral agent, the certainty of freedom in self-determination, and the necessary harmonizing of the spheres of sense and reason through the intelligent author or ground of both.

  • There can be no real self-determination under imperialist domination.

  • I think that if we follow some very basic and simple guidelines then we will not violate another right to self determination.

  • The right of self-determination of peoples must also be respected.

  • For the motive which may be said to be its cause lies in the man himself, and the identification of the self with such a motive is a self-determination, which is at once both rational and free.

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