Self-activity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Self-motion or the power of moving one's self or itself without foreign or external aid. uncountable

    "If it can intrinsically stir itself […] it must have a principle of self-activity which is life and sense."

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automatismautonomycybernationfree willindependenceself-determination

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"If it can intrinsically stir itself […] it must have a principle of self-activity which is life and sense."

Etymology

From self- + activity.

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