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Containing its own meaning or purpose; deriving meaning and purpose from within.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: process; person or personality; process; person or personality
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
Examples
- 1988, Antonella Della Fave, Fausto Massimini, 12: Modernization and the changing contexts in work and leisure, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (editors), Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 1992, Paperback, page 208, It is possible that these three people have jobs that are more autotelic than those of the rest of this group; that they have more responsibility, more initiative and challenge at their workplace than is usual for employees of their type.
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Of or pertaining to the quality of (a thing's) being autotelic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1988, Kevin Rathunde, Optimal experience and the family context, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (editors), Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness, 1992, Paperback, Cambridge University Press, page 251, The autotelic score was negatively correlated with the anxiety/ambiguity score r = −.57 and negatively correlated with the boredom/rigidity score r = −.36.
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Not motivated by anything beyond itself; thematically self-contained.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: art, arts
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An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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of or relating to or believing in autotelism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + τέλος (télos, “result; end”); compare auto- and telic. From early 20th century.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Esperanto:
aŭtotela
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Finnish:
autotelinen
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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French:
autotélique
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Italian:
autotelico
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Italian:
autotelici
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Italian:
autotelica
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Italian:
autoteliche
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Polish:
autoteliczny
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Spanish:
autotélico
— containing its own meaning or purpose
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Finnish:
autotelinen
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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French:
autotélique
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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Italian:
autotelico
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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Italian:
autotelici
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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Italian:
autotelica
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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Italian:
autoteliche
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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Polish:
autoteliczny
— deriving meaning and purpose from within
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Finnish:
autotelinen
— not motivated by anything beyond itself
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French:
autotélique
— not motivated by anything beyond itself
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Italian:
autotelico
— not motivated by anything beyond itself
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Italian:
autotelici
— not motivated by anything beyond itself
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Italian:
autotelica
— not motivated by anything beyond itself
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Italian:
autoteliche
— not motivated by anything beyond itself
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French:
personne autotélique
— autotelic person
