(अरिस्टोटल

Noun:

अंतस्तत्तव, पूर्णतादायक, उपलब्धि, साधन, सिद्दि,

entelechy's Usage Examples:

The perfection of the form of a thing is its entelechy (ivr€AMXECa) in virtue of which it attains its fullest realization of function (De anima, Í.

The perfection of the form of a thing is its entelechy (ivr€AMXECa) in virtue of which it attains its fullest realization of function (De anima, Í.

Dicaearchus agreed with his friend in this naturalistic rendering of the Aristotelian entelechy, and is recorded to have argued formally against the immortality of the soul.

The soul is created by God when the body of which it is the entelechy is prepared for it.

Thus the entelechy of the body is the soul.

Psychologically, Aristotle applied his dualism of matter and form to explain the antithesis of body and soul, so that the soul is the form, or entelechy, of an organic body, and he applied the same dualism to explain sensation, which he supposed to be reception of the sensible form or essence, without the matter, of a body, e.g.

entelechy's Meaning':

(Aristotle

Synonyms:

actuality,

Antonyms:

spuriousness, falsity,