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Definition of Autotelic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or believing in autotelism.
Definition of Autotelic
1. Adjective. (context: of an entity or event) Containing its own meaning or purpose. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Deriving meaning and purpose from within. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: arts of a work of art or literature) Not motivated by anything beyond itself, thematically self-contained. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Autotelic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Autotelic
1. Denoting those traits closely associated with the central purposes of an individual. Origin: auto-+ G. Telos, end, completeness, purpose (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotelic
Literary usage of Autotelic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetic Theory of Reality: Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in by James Mark Baldwin (1915)
"^Esthetic Interest synthetic in the sense of Intrinsic or autotelic 5. The grounds
on which we may with confidence hold that in the imaginative semblance of ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"autotelic is suggested as serving, in the phrases autotelic function, ...
According to certain theories, the aesthetic and play impulses are autotelic. ..."
3. The Origins of Art: A Psychological & Sociological Inquiry by Yrjö Hirn (1900)
"In other cases the eagerness with which pure science is pursued as an autotelic
end may be explained as a result of acquired habits. ..."
4. Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: A Study in Social by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"It also fails to find art ' autotelic ' (an end unto itself —' art for art's ...
The claim that art is autotelic is examined by Him, Origins of Art, Chap. ..."
5. The Elementary School Teacher by University of Chicago School of Education, Francis W. Parker School (Chicago, Ill.) (1905)
"The autotelic aspect of art.— It is the universal agreement among art writers of
the nonscientific school that art is not art unless it is purely in the ..."
6. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"... commit us to the view that the semblant function—play and with it art—is
strictly autotelic. It is to the writer doubtful whether the question can be ..."
7. Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1901)
"From every standpoint, therefore, autotelic ideas of art must be condemned when
they fix the matter and method of the art in our schools, since they ignore ..."
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