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autotelic

autotelic \autotelic\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to autotelism.

Wiktionary
autotelic

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
autotelic

adj. of or relating to or believing in autotelism

Wikipedia
Autotelic

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.