INDEPENDENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does independency mean? 

• INDEPENDENCY (noun)
  The noun INDEPENDENCY has 1 sense:

1. freedom from control or influence of another or others

  Familiarity information: INDEPENDENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDEPENDENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freedom from control or influence of another or others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

independence; independency

Hypernyms ("independency" is a kind of...):

freedom (the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints)

Attribute:

dependent (relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed)

independent (free from external control and constraint)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "independency"):

autonomy; liberty (immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence)

autarchy; autarky (economic independence as a national policy)

autonomy; self-direction; self-reliance; self-sufficiency (personal independence)

separateness (political independence)

Derivation:

independent ((of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces)

 Context examples 

"It would, indeed, be a relief," I thought, if I had ever so small an independency; I never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr. Rochester, or sitting like a second Danae with the golden shower falling daily round me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)