Word.ws English Dictionary

heterocephaly

heterocephaly noun: the appointment of the governing body by an outside authority.

Noun

heterocephaly (uncountable)

  1. The appointment of the governing body by an outside authority.
    • A case of heterocephaly is the appointment of the governors of the Canadian provinces by the central government of the Dominion.2009, Max Weber, The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization

Origin of heterocephaly

From hetero- + -cephaly.

Questions about heterocephaly

What does heterocephaly mean?
Heterocephaly means the appointment of the governing body by an outside authority.
What part of speech is heterocephaly?
Heterocephaly is a noun.

Words near heterocephaly in the dictionary

  1. heterocentrism
  2. heterocentrisms
  3. heterocentrist
  4. heterocephalous
  5. heterocephalus
  6. heterocephaly
  7. heteroceptor
  8. heteroceptors
  9. heterocerc
  10. heterocercal
  11. heterocercality

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heterocephaly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “heterocephaly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heterocephaly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.