Definitions for entelechies

entelechies en·tel·e·chy

Spelling: [en-tel-uh-kee]
IPA: /ɛnˈtɛl ə ki/

Entelechies is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 476 anagrams from letters in entelechies (ceeeehilnst).

Definitions for entelechies

noun

  1. a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
  2. (in vitalist philosophy) a vital agent or force directing growth and life.

Origin of entelechies

1595-1605; Late Latin entelechīa Greek entelécheia, equivalent to en- en-2 + tél(os) goal + éch(ein) to have + -eia -y3

Examples for entelechies

That is why, if we do grant the existence of an entelechy, it must be inseparable from the body.

The soul actualises the body, and becomes, as he said, its entelechy.

We at present are dealing with entelechy in a quasi-popular manner.

entelechy works as if it were reasonable and acted with a set purpose.

Now let us examine the opinion of those who call the soul an entelechy.

For Aristotle it was the substantial form of the body—the entelechy, but not a substance.

But I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms.

What then undergoes change in phylogeny, the means or the entelechy?

The soul, Aristotle defines as the first entelechy of the body.

In every other monad, the entelechy, or energy, is but one factor.

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