autonomism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā)bor. English autonomy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English autonomism From autonomy + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A set of anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movements originating from Italy in the 1960s.
The village-like clusters making up Jewish Birobidzhan are only passingly described, the geopolitical motivations for the region’s creation are never fleshed out and the influence of the noted historian and ideologue of Jewish autonomism Simon Dubnow is repeatedly mentioned but left undiagnosed.
2016 July 11, Steven J. Zipperstein, “Masha Gessen on a Planned Jewish Homeland in Soviet Russia”, in The New York Times:
- (uncountable) A political doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political autonomy of a nation or a region.
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Translations (4)
es movimiento autónomo (Translations) · pl autonomizm (Translations) · ca autonomisme (Translations) · fr mouvement autonome (Translations)