#dependence

• Weaned — That has been weaned; (about a child or a young animal) that has transitioned from exclusive breast milk feeding to a diversified diet. From a psychosocial perspective, the term describes the stage of an individual who has moved past the phase of absolute symbiotic oral dependency on the mother figure.
• Addiction — A pathological state or a structural, physical, and psychological dependence manifested by a compulsive and hard-to-control need to consume a certain substance (drugs, alcohol, nicotine) or to repeatedly perform an activity (gambling, technology use), despite obvious negative consequences on health and social life.
• Alcoholic — As an adjective: relating to, containing, or induced by alcohol. As a noun: a person suffering from alcoholism, exhibiting a chronic physical and psychological dependence on alcohol consumption, characterized by a loss of control over drinking and severe withdrawal episodes.
• Alcoholism — A pathological state and chronic disease caused by the repeated, abusive, and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. It manifests through profound physical and psychological dependence, severe metabolic disruptions, progressive degradation of personality, cognitive impairment, and damage to vital organs, particularly the liver and central nervous system.
• Alcoolism — The standard Romanian spelling for alcoholism; a pathological state and chronic disease caused by the repeated, abusive, and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. This condition manifests through profound physical and psychological dependence on ethanol, leading to metabolic alterations, progressive degradation of personality, and damage to vital organs, particularly the liver and nervous system.
• Anaclitic — Leaning on or depending on the support, protection, or presence of another person; in psychoanalysis, it describes a libidinal or attachment object choice modeled after parental figures who provided nourishment and protection in infancy. In a broader clinical sense, the term refers to a state of profound emotional dependence, the sudden deprivation of which in infants or young children can lead to anaclitic depression, structurally manifested through apathy, social withdrawal, and developmental regression.
• Anti-Spanish — Manifesting an attitude of hostility, opposition, aversion, or resistance toward Spain, the Spanish people, their culture, institutions, or imperial and geopolitical interests. Historically, the term often refers to the 19th-century emancipation movements in Latin America or the political-religious propaganda (the Black Legend) spread by rival powers during the golden age of the Spanish Empire.
• Defenders of independence — An historical and patriotic phrase designating the soldiers, political leaders, cultural figures, or citizens who sacrificed themselves or actively fought in the War of Independence (1877-1878) or other national liberation movements. This structural concept reflects the collective forces that guaranteed the sovereignty of the Romanian state against neighboring empires.
• Indentured — Having lived or living in the condition of a hired servant; a person employed as a hand for a master, assimilated into rural or domestic servitude. In an extended sense, it describes the social status of an individual who has lost economic independence and is constrained to perform subordinate labor for others.
• Artigas — A proper surname of Iberian (Catalan/Aragonese) origin, made globally famous by José Gervasio Artigas, the national hero of Uruguay considered the father of the country's independence. As a toponymic eponym, the name designates an administrative department, a border city in Uruguay, and an Antarctic scientific base.
• Subjugation — The act of enslaving or subjugating and its result; a political, social, or economic process through which a person, a community, or an institution is brought into a state of total dependence, submission, or bondage under an external authority. This structural phenomenon implies the loss of decisional autonomy and the cancellation of fundamental freedoms, forcing the subordinated entity to act exclusively in the interest of the dominant power.
• Appurtenance — A rare adaptation of the French term 'attenance', signifying a close link, logical connection, legal dependence, territorial continuity, or structural belonging of a secondary element to a main body. In an old legal or administrative context, the term described real estate dependencies or appurtenances belonging directly to a larger property or feudal estate.
• Aung San — Burmese general and nationalist leader, revered as the father of modern Myanmar's independence. He was a brilliant strategist who negotiated the country's liberation from British colonial rule and Japanese occupation, and was assassinated in 1947, shortly before the official proclamation of the republic, remaining an absolute symbol of national unity and dignity.
• Autarkic — Based on autarky, relating to a closed economic or political system within which a community, region, or state ensures its total independence by exclusively consuming goods produced inside its own borders, refusing or minimizing external trade and imports. In an ancient philosophical sense, it describes a state of spiritual self-sufficiency and full moral independence of the individual in relation to external factors.
• Autocephalous — Self-governing; used to describe a national Eastern Orthodox Church that is fully independent administratively and legally from any external hierarchical authority or foreign patriarchate, while maintaining full dogmatic communion.
• Self-funded — Regarding companies, projects, departments, or activities: self-financed, self-funded; securing its necessary funds fully or partially from its own revenues, without relying on subsidies, external credits, or financial assistance from a parent entity.
• To self-govern — To rule, administer, or govern oneself autonomously through one's own laws, institutions, and internal decisions, without being subjected to external administrative control or foreign political domination. It applies to peoples, sovereign states, autonomous regions, or micro-communities fully exercising their self-determination.
• Autonomy — The right or capacity of a community, region, or individual to self-administer, self-govern, and make independent decisions within a set legal or moral framework; the state of structural independence of an entity relative to a central authority. In philosophy and ethics, it represents the full freedom of the human will to impose its own moral laws, acting on practical reason without external heteronomous constraints.
• Self-service — The act of self-serving; a modern method or system of organizing retail trade or dining establishments, where customers independently choose and take goods or dishes directly from shelves or serving lines, paying for them collectively at the register. By extension, the term denotes the commercial store or restaurant operating on this autonomous principle.
• Self-sufficient — Capable of satisfying one's needs through own efforts, without relying on external help or support; independent from an economic, structural, or functional standpoint. In a psychological or behavioral sense, it can carry a pejorative connotation, describing a person who is smug, arrogant, or satisfied with their own limited knowledge, showing disregard for the opinions or contributions of others.