entelechial
ə noun, plural en·tel·e·chies.
1.
a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
2.
(in vitalist philosophy) a vital agent or force directing growth and life.
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| —n , pl -chies | |
| 1. | (in the philosophy of Aristotle) actuality as opposed to potentiality |
| 2. | (in the system of Leibnitz) the soul or principle of perfection of an object or person; a monad or basic constituent |
| 3. | something that contains or realizes a final cause, esp the vital force thought to direct the life of an organism |
| [C17: from Late Latin entelechia, from Greek entelekheia, from | |
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entelechy
c.1600, from Gk. entelekheia, from en- "in" + telei, dative of telos "perfection" (see tele-) + ekhein "to have." In Aristotle, "the condition in which a potentiality has become an actuality."
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