The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entelechy \En*tel"e*chy\, n. [L. entelechia, Gr. ?, prob. fr. ? ? ? to be complete; ? + ? completion, end + ? to have or hold.] (Peripatetic Philos.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Aristotelian philosophy English) The complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualised. 2 A particular type of motivation, need for self-determination, and inner strength directing life and growth to become all one is capable of being. It is the need to actualize one’s beliefs. It is having a personal vision and being able to actualize that vision from within. 3 Something complex that emerges when a large number of simple objects are put together.
Usage examples of "entelechy".
I will deal with the entelechy, and then I will drink even his name dry of meaning.
Meridian, entelechy of the seventh sphere, lord of dream and shadow, faced his would-be assassin little strengthened.
Or she must find some way to use the meddling of the entelechy of the seventh sphere to her advantage: if Tempus sought out Datan and made an end to him, not Roxane or any other witch or adept of Wizardwall would scour the hills for souls to buy him peace.
And a part of him was glad for that: physical undead or vicious apparition, he was fairly certain that her spirit, by the grace of the sword bestowed on him by the entelechy of dreams, had found its destined rest.
The theory that it is some final development, some entelechy, we pass by, holding this to be neither true as presented nor practically definitive.
We come to the doctrine of the Entelechy, and must enquire how it is applied to soul.
The very upholders of the Entelechy are thus compelled to introduce another soul, the Intellect, to which they ascribe immortality.
There remains the vegetal principle which might seem to suggest the possibility that, in this phase, the soul may be the inseparable Entelechy of the doctrine.
An identical soul is now the soul of one living being now of another: how could the soul of the first become the soul of the latter if soul were the Entelechy of one particular being?
But surely a man may be fond of metaphysics for the sweet sake of Queen Entelechy, and, moreover, these students looked forward to days in which real work would bear fruit.
I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms.
So that gesture, not music not odour, would be a universal language, the gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm.
Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet, and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies, but with that experience, the compass of the self can be set.
Perhaps these ideas foreshadow the entelechy of the Transcendence Alia described to Michael.
She veered northeast to skirt the capital and soared still higher, thinking of Datan and what he would say to the news she brought of theomachy and flouted gods, of entelechies and Stormbringer and a problematical demigod called Tempus.