nomo-, nom-, -nomy, -nome, -nomic, -nomous, -nomical, -nomically

1. The management of land, rural economy, husbandry.
2. The theory and practice of agricultural management, crop production, and husbandry.
3. The scientific study of crop production and soil management, including irrigation and the use of herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers.

1. A descriptive term for an anxious awareness that the prevailing values of society have little or no personal relevance to one's living existence or condition.
2. Characteristic of a condition of society characterized by the relative absence of norms or moral standards.

1. A condition in society in which normative standards of conduct and belief are weak or lacking; also, a similar condition in an individual commonly characterized by disorientation, anxiety, and isolation.
2. A reference to a lack of social control in which the absence of regulation and control has permitted desires to grow beyond all hope of satisfaction and so such a condition may result in "anomic suicide".
3. Apathy, alienation, and personal distress resulting from the loss of goals previously valued. Emile Durkheim popularized this term when he listed it as a principal reason for suicide.

Emile Durkheim was a French social scientist and a founder of sociology who is known for his study of social values and alienation. His important works include The Rules of Sociological Method (1895).

1. Inconceivably large.
2. Relating to or belonging to the science of astronomy.

1. The scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition, energy, and evolution of celestial bodies and phenomena.

Astronomy literally means "law of the stars" or "culture of the stars"; depending on the translation, and it is derived from the Greek αστρονομία, astronomia, from the words άστρον, astron, "star" and νόμος, nomos, "laws" or "cultures".

2. The science that deals with the material universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
3. The scientific study of the universe, especially of the motions, positions, sizes, composition, and behavior of astronomical objects.

These objects are studied and interpreted from the radiation they emit and from data gathered by interplanetary probes.

Functioning independently of the will; not under voluntary control: a reference to that part of the nervous system that regulates the activities of blood vessels, secretory glands, and viscera. It comprises parasympathetic and sympathetic components.

The belief in or a movement toward autonomy.

Someone who strives for autonomy or independence.

1. Not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent: "an autonomous judiciary; an autonomous division of a corporate conglomerate".
2. Independent in mind or judgment; self-directed.
3. Independent of the laws of another state or government; self-governing.
4. Of or relating to a self-governing entity: an autonomous legislature.
5. Self-governing with respect to local or internal affairs: an autonomous region of a country.
6. In biology, independent and self-governing to the extent that the organism is able to act on the basis of endogenous forces and not only in response to external influences.

1. The condition or quality of being autonomous; independence.
2. A self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination.
3. Self-government with respect to local or internal affairs: granted autonomy to a national minority.
4. A self-governing state, community, or group.
5. The quality or state of being independent, free, and self-directing.
6. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority; political independence.
7. Independence from an organism as a whole in the capacity of a part for growth, reactivity, or responsiveness.