entelechy
noun
a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
entelechies
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pluralof entelechy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Whence it appears that in the smallest particle of matter there is a world of creatures, living beings, animals, entelechies, souls.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick
But in order to distinguish those which have only perception from those which have also sentiment and memory, he will call the latter souls, the former monads or entelechies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
