autotelic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Containing its own meaning or purpose; deriving meaning and purpose from within.

   “Chess itself, however – the playing of the game – is most frequently engaged in, as we say, for its own sake, as an autotelic activity rather than as a teleological one. The majority of utterances of a language are teleological, aiming at informing […]”

2. sıfat Of or pertaining to the quality of (a thing's) being autotelic.
3. sıfat Not motivated by anything beyond itself; thematically self-contained.

   ““Running Water Music II” represents a contemporary version of the autotelic poem, freer than its modernist predecessors to assert connections, celebrate openly, declare connections between self and world, but bound by semantic and imagistic frames that derive from a single source.”

4. isim An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.