noun political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
2. autocracy ·noun independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
3. autocracy ·noun supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
4. autocracy ·noun the action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.