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autotelics

autotelics is the plural of autotelic.

Meaning of autotelic

Noun

autotelic (plural autotelics)

  1. An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.
    • Measuring autotelic personality similarly with young adults, Hektner (1996) confirmed that autotelics were least happy and motivated in apathy (low-challenge, low-skill) situations, whereas nonautotelics (those least motivated in high-challenge, high-skill situations) did not find the apathy...2014, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Springer, page 254

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Questions about autotelics

What is autotelics the plural of?
Autotelics is the plural of autotelic.

Words near autotelics in the dictionary

  1. autotelegraph
  2. autotelegraphic
  3. autotelegraphs
  4. autotelegraphy
  5. autotelic
  6. autotelics
  7. autotelism
  8. autoteller
  9. autotellers
  10. autotest
  11. autotesting

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