Definitions for entelechy

entelechy en·tel·e·chy

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

Entelechy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in entelechy (ceeehlnty).

Definitions for entelechy

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 entelechy

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

Examples for entelechy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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