autotelic

Meanings

Adjective

• Containing its own meaning or purpose; deriving meaning and purpose from within.
• Of or pertaining to the quality of (a thing's) being autotelic.
• Not motivated by anything beyond itself; thematically self-contained.

Noun

• An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.

Related

Opposite words

• non-autotelic, nonautotelic

Origin

• From Ancient Greek αὐτός + τέλος; compare auto- and telic. From early 20th century.