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Meaning of "entelechy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENTELECHY

From Late Latin entelechia, from Greek entelekheia, from en-² + telos goal, completion + ekhein to have.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ENTELECHY

entelechy  [ɛnˈtɛlɪkɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENTELECHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Entelechy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENTELECHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

entelechy

Potentiality and actuality

In philosophy, potentiality and actuality are principles of a dichotomy which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics and De Anima. The concept of potentiality, in this context, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have. Aristotle did not consider all possibilities the same, and emphasized the importance of those that become real of their own accord when conditions are right and nothing stops them. Actuality, in contrast to potentiality, is the motion, change or activity that represents an exercise or fulfillment of a possibility, when a possibility becomes real in the fullest sense. These concepts, in modified forms, remained very important into the middle ages, influencing the development of medieval theology in several ways. Going further into modern times, while the understanding of nature implied by the dichotomy lost importance, the terminology has found new uses, developing indirectly from the old. This is most obvious in words like "energy" and "dynamic" but also in examples such as the biological concept of an "entelechy".

Definition of entelechy in the English dictionary

The first definition of entelechy in the dictionary is actuality as opposed to potentiality. Other definition of entelechy is the soul or principle of perfection of an object or person; a monad or basic constituent. Entelechy is also something that contains or realizes a final cause, esp the vital force thought to direct the life of an organism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENTELECHY


al-Maliki
ælˈmælɪkɪ
colicky
ˈkɒlɪkɪ
dickey
ˈdɪkɪ
frolicky
ˈfrɒlɪkɪ
garlicky
ˈɡɑːlɪkɪ
hickey
ˈhɪkɪ
mickey
ˈmɪkɪ
micky
ˈmɪkɪ
picky
ˈpɪkɪ
pilgarlicky
pɪlˈɡɑːlɪkɪ
psyche
ˈsaɪkɪ
quickie
ˈkwɪkɪ
reiki
ˈreɪkɪ
rollicky
ˈrɒlɪkɪ
shaky
ˈʃeɪkɪ
smart-alecky
ˌsmɑːtˈælɪkɪ
sticky
ˈstɪkɪ
tricky
ˈtrɪkɪ
Vicky
ˈvɪkɪ
wiki
ˈwɪkɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENTELECHY

entelechies
entellus
entender
entente
entente cordiale
enter
enter into
enter the lists
entera
enterable
enteral
enterally
enterate
enterchaunge
enterdeale
enterectomies
enterectomy
enterer
enteric
enteric fever

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENTELECHY

anarchy
beechy
bitchy
catchy
Clichy
crunchy
hierarchy
itchy
monarchy
peachy
raunchy
reechy
screechy
sketchy
sleechy
slouchy
stretchy
techy
Vichy
yechy

Synonyms and antonyms of entelechy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «entelechy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENTELECHY

Find out the translation of entelechy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of entelechy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «entelechy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

圆满实现
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

entelequia
570 millions of speakers

English

entelechy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

entelechy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استنجاز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

энтелехия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enteléquia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

entelechy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

entéléchie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Entelechy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entelechie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

entelechy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

entelechy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Entelechy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

entelechy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெறும் சாத்தியக் கூறு அல்லாத பொருளின் நிறை நிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फसवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

entelechy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

entelechia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

entelechia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ентелехия
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

entelechie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εντελέχεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

entelechy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

entelechy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

entelechy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of entelechy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTELECHY»

The term «entelechy» is normally little used and occupies the 119.989 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTELECHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «entelechy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «entelechy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about entelechy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENTELECHY»

Discover the use of entelechy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to entelechy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychotic Entelechy: The Dangers of Spiritual Gifts Theology
' Expounding on concepts developed in earlier work, author Stan Lindsay analyzes the religious motives behind the dangerous behavior of some individuals and organizations, presents key indicators of psychotic entelechy, and proposes ...
Stan A. Lindsay, 2006
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Implicit Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Extension of Aristotle's ...
Implicit Rhetoric examines the implications of Kenneth Burke's concept of entelechy, the most transcendent term in Burke's philosophical system.
Stan A. Lindsay, 1998
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Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy
The Greek word for this is entelechy, and Aristotle constructs his theory of human well-being on the concept of entelechy. entelechy From the Greek for “having its end within itself”: according to ArisEntelechy Aristotle thought that entelechy ...
Douglas Soccio, 2012
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Botti Rubin Arquitetos:
Entelechy II Design/Completion 1985/1987 Sea Island, Georgia Mr. and Mrs. John Portman, Jr. 1,170 square meters Concrete, stone, and glass Entelechy II is Portman's own beach house and it is the most comprehensive and intimate insight ...
Steve Womersley, 2002
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Leibniz and the Natural World: Activity, Passivity and ...
COMPLETION OF THE ENTELECHY The question whether primary matter is completed by only one entelechy or by many led us to investigate the natural extendedness of primary matter. This in turn led to an examination of Leibniz's concept ...
Pauline Phemister, 2006
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Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866
ENTELECHY, n. (Gr. entelecheia, word invented by Aristotle, from en telei echon, having attained the end.) Literally, attainment, realization; opposed to power, potentiality, and nearly the same as energy or act (actuality). The idea of entelechy ...
Charles Sanders Peirce, Max Harold Fisch, Christian J. W. Kloesel, 1982
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Leibniz: An Introduction
from 'monad', and regards an entelechy as an inseparable factor in a monad. But it seems to me that he often uses it carelessly as equivalent to 'monad'. In a very important passage in the Letters to de Volder Leibniz distinguishes the ...
Charlie Dunbar Broad, 1975
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On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984
Entelechy is an old friend in Burke, going back, as it does, to the early fifties and his work on the dramatistic poetics and the original Symbolic of Motives. Burke borrowed the term from Aristotle and modified it to apply to literary texts, especially ...
Kenneth Burke, William Howe Rueckert, Angelo Bonadonna, 2003
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From Karl Mannheim
A further idea suggested by Pinder is that each generation builds up an ' entelechy' of its own by which means alone it can really become a qualitative unity. Although Dilthey believed the inner unity of a generation to exist in the community of ...
Karl Mannheim, Kurt H. Wolff, 1993
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Phenomenology World Wide: Foundations - Expanding Dynamics - ...
In the 1930s, in keeping with his research work, Driesch had insistently spoken of an entelechy of organisms that represents a typical plan or project, capable also of intervening to correct the organism in the course of its development, a kind of ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENTELECHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term entelechy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Waking Up Our Humanity
... insanity - what Albert Hoffman called a "Western entelechy neurosis" and what Albert Einstein called "an optical delusion of consciousness.". «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
2
Feeling Grateful for My Body's Subtle Magic Changed My Destiny
This deep knowledge is what motivates me every day to show up as a coach and accept my mission to help others find their entelechy, that full ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
3
Citrix, VMware bring VDI and converged infrastructure together
... because it puts storage and compute right next to each other, said Simon Bramfitt, analyst with Entelechy Associates in Concord, Calif. «TechTarget, May 15»
4
Citrix Workspace Cloud to be the belle of the Synergy ball
... Citrix hasn't had a visible answer to that, said Simon Bramfitt, an independent analyst and founder of Entelechy Associates in Concord, Calif. «TechTarget, May 15»
5
Terence Traut Among Top Speakers at ISPI 2015 Conference & Expo
Speaking on the topic of Coaching for Talent Development and Employee Engagement, Terence Traut, president of Entelechy – creators of ... «PR Web, May 15»
6
Amazon WorkSpaces adds simpler app delivery, management
... process for getting applications onto user desktops, said Simon Bramfitt, virtualization analyst with Entelechy Associates in Concord, Calif. «TechTarget, Apr 15»
7
VMware Horizon 6 closes in on Citrix VDI with more features
... long-held market dominance for RDSH, said Simon Bramfitt, desktop virtualization analyst with Entelechy Associates in Concord, Calif. «TechTarget, Mar 15»
8
IT jobs market booms, but talent in short supply
Simon Bramfitt, a virtualization analyst at Entelechy Associates in Concord, Calif., has also heard from recruiters in search of IT talent. "They ask ... «TechTarget, Mar 15»
9
Coppa: "Entelechy" by Pua Maunu
Entelechy” is the name of the exhibit and also descriptive of several of the works in the exhibit, according to Maunu's press release. «Juneau Empire, Mar 15»
10
Neoliberalism: The Ever Reliable Straw Man
As Mario Vargas Llosa writes, neoliberalism is a “terrifying, destructive entelechy” invented by politicians and ideologues of all tendencies ... «PanAm Post, Feb 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Entelechy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/entelechy>. May 2024 ».
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