All self-determination synonyms
self-de·ter·mi·na·tion
S s noun self-determination
- freedom — the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
- license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- licence — license.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- entitlement — The fact of having a right to something.
- citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
- home rule — self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
- nonalignment — the state or condition of being nonaligned.
- abolitionism — the principle or policy of abolition, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.
- liberty — freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
- independence — a city in W Missouri: starting point of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.
- will — Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
adj self-determination
- autonomous — An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else.
- freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- independent — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.