The Collaborative International Dictionary
autotelic \autotelic\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to autotelism.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of an entity or event English) Containing its own meaning or purpose. 2 (context of a person English) Deriving meaning and purpose from within. 3 (context arts of a work of art or literature English) Not motivated by anything beyond itself, thematically self-contained.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or believing in autotelism
Wikipedia
A thing which is autotelic is described as "having a purpose in and not apart from itself".
Usage examples of "autotelic".
Bundles of data that had waited, circulating unexamined in the box of valves, became suddenly relevant, interacting with this extraordinary new mode of calculation, this autotelic processing.
I knew I had found my theme, but it was an artistic, an academic, an autotelic choice, having nothing to do with extraneous matters like my own situation.