Usually means: Creation's purpose lies within itself.
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  1. autotelism: Merriam-Webster
  2. autotelism: Vocabulary.com
  3. autotelism: Wordnik
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  7. autotelism: FreeDictionary.org
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  9. autotelism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. autotelism: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (autotelism)

noun:  The belief that an entity or event has within itself its own meaning or purpose.
noun:  (art) In literature or art, the belief that a work, having been created, is a justification in and of itself. Poems with a unified rhetorical device to frame the poem in a singular idea.

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