Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Heteronomy \Het`er*on"o*my\, n.
   1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another;
      political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed
      to autonomy.

   2. (Metaph.) A term applied by Kant to those laws which are
      imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by
      our passions, wants, or desires. --Krauth-Fleming.