Usually means: Engaging in self-fulfilling, intrinsically rewarding activities.
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  1. autotelic: Merriam-Webster
  2. autotelic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autotelic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autotelic: Vocabulary.com
  5. autotelic: Wordnik
  6. autotelic: Wiktionary
  7. autotelic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. autotelic: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. autotelic: Dictionary.com
  10. Autotelic (band), Autotelic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. autotelic: Rhymezone
  12. autotelic: FreeDictionary.org
  13. autotelic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. autotelic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. autotelic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. autotelic: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Autotelic: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (autotelic)

adjective:  (psychology, of an activity, process, person or personality) Containing its own meaning or purpose; deriving meaning and purpose from within.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the quality of (a thing's) being autotelic.
adjective:  (art, of a work of art or literature) Not motivated by anything beyond itself; thematically self-contained.
noun:  An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.

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