Self-determination synonyms

sĕlf'dĭ-tûr'mə-nā'shən

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initiative
The power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise and determination.
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independence
(Archaic) Sufficient income for comfortable self-support; a competence.
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sovereignty (related)
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self-sufficiency
The condition of being self-sufficient.
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self-government
Self-control.
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self-rule
Rule of a group of people by their own leaders as opposed to rule imposed by a foreign government or people.
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autonomy (related)
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natural rights (related)
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statehood (related)
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legitimacy (related)
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privilege
A basic civil right, guaranteed by a government
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spontaneity
(Biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
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will (related)
The particular desire, purpose, pleasure, choice, etc. of a certain person or group
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self-reliance
Self reliance is the ability to depend on yourself to get things done and to meet your own needs.
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dependence (related)
An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.
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  • 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.

  • Self-determination or Kujichagulia (koo-gee-cha-goo-LEE-yah): The decisions a person makes must not only benefit the individual, but must also be in the best interests of his or her family and the community as a whole.

  • The purpose of these principles is to unite African communities through self-determination within a multicultural context.

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