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PRONUNCIATION:

(ah-toh-TEH-lik)

MEANING:

adjective: Having a purpose, motivation, or meaning in itself; not driven by external factors.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek auto- (self) + telos (end). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwel- (to revolve), which also gave us colony, cult, culture, cycle, cyclone, chakra, collar, telic, entelechy, talisman, col, and accolade. Earliest documented use: 1864.

USAGE:

“I knew I had found my theme, but it was an artistic, an academic, an autotelic choice, having nothing to do with extraneous matters.”
Reginald Hill; Death’s Jest-Book; Harper; 2002.

See more usage examples of autotelic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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