sovereignty
The quality or state of being sovereign.
Other meanings
Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
Related words
- antisovereignty
- biosovereignty
- cosovereignty
- omnisovereignty
- semisovereignty
- data sovereignty
- food sovereignty
- nonsovereignty
- sovereigntism
- sovereigntist
Word history
From Latin "super" (above; on top of).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sovereignty” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.