The difference between Autonomous and Selfstanding

When used as adjectives, autonomous means self-governing. intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently, whereas selfstanding means standing or existing in ones own power, ability or competence, non-reliant.

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  1. Autonomous as an adjective:

    Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.

  2. Autonomous as an adjective:

    Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.

  3. Autonomous as an adjective (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form):

    Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).

  1. Selfstanding as an adjective:

    standing or existing in ones own power, ability or competence, non-reliant

  2. Selfstanding as an adjective:

    individual; independent

  3. Selfstanding as an adjective (grammar):

    lacking affixes, stem

    Examples:

    "selfstanding word"

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