having an end in itself; engaged in for its own sake, as some creative art
Origin of autotelic
from Classical Greek autotel?s, complete in itself (see auto- and teleology) + -icautotelic
auto·telicWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more autotelic, superlative most autotelic)
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