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Entelechy

noun
1.
(Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality.





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... denote the individual consciousness in its integrity and continuity; and that this soul undergoes change, that in like manner as it is integrated so it is disintegrated, is a thing very evident. For Aristotle it was the substantial form of the body—the entelechy, but not a substance. And more than one modern has called it an epiphenomenon—an absurd term. The ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno


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