Autonomy vs. Liberty — What's the Difference?

In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are independent or self-governing.

Broadly speaking, liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege).

The condition or quality of being autonomous; independence.

The condition of being free from confinement, servitude, or forced labor.

Self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination.

The condition of being free from oppressive restriction or control by a government or other power.

Self-government with respect to local or internal affairs

A right to engage in certain actions without control or interference by a government or other power

A self-governing state, community, or group.

The right or power to act as one chooses

(uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.

A breach or overstepping of propriety or social convention

A self-governing country or region.

A departure from strict compliance

The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.

A deviation from accepted truth or known fact

The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.

An unwarranted risk; a chance

The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.

A period, usually short, during which a sailor is authorized to go ashore.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

The condition of being free from control or restrictions.

The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.

The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.

Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.

Personal independence

Freedom from excessive government control.

A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.

(often plural) A breach of social convention.

(historical) A local division of government administration in medieval England.

(game of go) An empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; - opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.

Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.

A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.

Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.

The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.

A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.

A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.

The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.

A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.

Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

Freedom of choice;

Personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

Leave granted to a sailor or naval officer

An act of undue intimacy