AUTOTELIC


Meaning of AUTOTELIC in English

| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷+|telik adjective

Etymology: Greek autotel ēs complete in itself (from aut- + telos end) + English -ic

: having an end or purpose in and not apart from itself

poetry is …, like mathematics, an autotelic activity — Louis MacNeice

— contrasted with heterotelic

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.