autotelic
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autotelic (comparative more autotelic, superlative most autotelic)
- An entity or event has within itself its own meaning or purpose.
- (art) In literature or art, a work, having been created, that is self-justifying. Poems with a unified rhetorical device to frame the poem in a singular idea.