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Definition of Entelechy
1. Noun. (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality.
Definition of Entelechy
1. n. An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.
Definition of Entelechy
1. Noun. (context: Aristotelian philosophy) The complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualised. ¹
2. Noun. A particular type of motivation, need for self-determination, and inner strength directing life and growth to become all one is capable of being. It is the need to actualize one’s beliefs. It is having a personal vision and being able to actualize that vision from within. ¹
3. Noun. Something complex that emerges when you put a large number of simple objects together. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entelechy
1. [n -CHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entelechy
Literary usage of Entelechy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science and Philosophy of the Organism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered by Hans Driesch (1908)
"entelechy when performing any act in a system becomes changed with regard to ...
Thus entelechy is affected by the accomplishment of its own performance, ..."
2. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"... it is the Energy or entelechy of Matter.2 But the be said of tbat which by
its very nature could not be : but this could not be potential, ..."
3. Collected Reprints by Otto Charles Glaser (1904)
"entelechy is an elemental factor of nature conceived to explain a certain class of
... You may say if you like that entelechy, when turning a mass particle, ..."
4. Life of Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558): Transactions, APS by Vernon Hall (2007)
"In his Exercitationes Scaliger has a discussion on the terms entelechy and ...
Since Aristotle defines the soul as an "entelechy" and since Melanchthon ..."
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