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English

Etymology

: en “within,” + tele “goal, or end,” + chy “to have” (alt. kheia)

Noun

  1. A particular type of motivation, need for self-determination, and inner strength directing life and growth to become all one is capable of being. It is the need to actualize one's beliefs. It is having a personal vision and being able to actualize that vision from within. [Aristotelian philosophy.]
  2. A conception completely actualized.
  3. Something complex that emerges when you put a large number of simple objects together.


Translations


ta:entelechy vi:entelechy zh:entelechy

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Entelechy \En*tel"e*chy\, n. [L. entelechia, Gr. ?, prob. fr. ?
? ? to be complete; ? + ? completion, end + ? to have or
hold.] (Peripatetic Philos.)
An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in
distinction from mere potential existence.
[1913 Webster]
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