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SELF-DETERMINATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-determination mean?
• SELF-DETERMINATION (noun)
The noun SELF-DETERMINATION has 2 senses:
1. government of a political unit by its own people
2. determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion
Familiarity information: SELF-DETERMINATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Government of a political unit by its own people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
self-determination; self-government; self-rule
Hypernyms ("self-determination" is a kind of...):
autonomy; liberty (immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-determination"):
sovereignty (government free from external control)
local option (freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction)
home rule (self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("self-determination" is a kind of...):
discretion; free will (the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies)
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