teleology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: Partly borrowed from French téléologie and from German Teleologie + English -logy (suffix denoting a branch of learning or study of a particular subject). Téléologie and Teleologie are both derived from Late Latin teleologia, from Ancient Greek τέλεος (téleos) (the genitive singular of τέλος (télos, “final cause, purpose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn end-over-end; to revolve around, hence, to dwell, sojourn”)) + Latin -logia (suffix denoting the logical discourse or study of a subject) (from Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā, suffix denoting a branch of learning or study of a particular subject), from λόγος (lógos, “that which is said or thought; subject matter”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns)). By surface analysis, teleo- (prefix meaning ‘end, goal, purpose’) + -logy.
Affixes: -logy
Inflected forms:
form: teleologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the design or final purpose of natural occurrences, that is, of such occurrences being the result of intention instead of prior causes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The received intellectual tradition has it that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, revolutionary philosophers began to curtail and reject the teleology of the medieval and scholastic Aristotelians, abandoning final causes in favor of a purely mechanistic model of the Universe.
gloss: The study of the design or final purpose of natural occurrences, that is, of such occurrences being the result of intention instead of prior causes.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: Their proposed explanation at the time was riddled with teleology.
In short, what every student of biology knows – that within nature there is a teleology having to do with the survival of the species which underpins the distinction between the two sexes and produces between them a natural affinity for one another – no surgeon who knows what is good for him may now say.
gloss: The belief or theory that a natural occurrence is the result of divine design or intention rather than the laws of nature or science; theoteleology; (countable) a particular belief or theory of this sort.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: teleonomy
teleophobia
Derived words: dysteleology
teleologic
teleological
teleologically
teleologism
teleologist
theoteleology
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: teleologie
lang: Amharic
word: ሥነ-ዕላማ
roman: śənä-ʿəlama
lang: Arabic
word: غائية
lang: Armenian
word: տելեոլոգիա
roman: teleologia
lang: Azerbaijani
word: teleologiya
lang: Basque
word: teleologia
lang: Belarusian
word: тэлеалогія
roman: teljealóhija
lang: Bengali
word: উদ্দেশ্যবাদ
roman: uddeśśobad
lang: Bulgarian
word: телеология
roman: teleologija
lang: Catalan
word: teleologia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 目的論 /目的论
roman: mùdìlùn
lang: Czech
word: teleologie
lang: Danish
word: teleologi
lang: Dutch
word: teleologie
lang: Dutch
word: doelmatigheidsleer
lang: Esperanto
word: teleologio
lang: Estonian
word: teleoloogia
lang: Finnish
word: teleologia
lang: Finnish
word: tarkoitusoppi
lang: French
word: téléologie
lang: Galician
word: teleoloxía
lang: Georgian
word: ტელეოლოგია
roman: ṭeleologia
lang: German
word: Teleologie
lang: Greek
word: τελεολογία
roman: teleología
lang: Hebrew
word: טלאולוגיה
lang: Hindi
word: उद्देश्यवाद
roman: uddeśyavād
lang: Hungarian
word: teleológia
lang: Icelandic
word: markhyggja
lang: Ido
word: teleologio
lang: Indonesian
word: teleologi
lang: Interlingua
word: teleologia
lang: Irish
word: teileolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: teleologia
lang: Japanese
word: 目的論
roman: mokutekiron
lang: Kazakh
word: телеология
roman: teleologiä
lang: Korean
word: 목적론
roman: mokjeongnon
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئاکامباوەڕی
roman: akambawerrî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: телеология
roman: teleologiya
lang: Latin
word: teleologia
lang: Macedonian
word: телеологија
roman: teleologija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: teleologi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: teleologi
lang: Occitan
word: teleologia
lang: Persian
word: غایتانگاری
lang: Polish
word: teleologia
lang: Portuguese
word: teleologia
lang: Romanian
word: teleologie
lang: Russian
word: телеоло́гия
roman: teleológija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: телеоло̀гија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: teleològija
lang: Slovak
word: teleológia
lang: Spanish
word: teleología
lang: Swedish
word: teleologi
lang: Turkish
word: teleoloji
lang: Turkish
word: erek bilimi
lang: Ukrainian
word: телеологія
roman: teleolohija
lang: Uzbek
word: teleologiya
lang: Vietnamese
word: cứu cánh luận
lang: Vietnamese
word: mục đích luận
lang: Waray-Waray
word: teleolohiya
lang: Welsh
word: teleoleg
lang: Welsh
word: bwriadaeth
lang: Welsh
word: bwriadeg
lang: Welsh
word: dibenyddiaeth