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A thing which is autotelic is described as "having a purpose in and not apart from itself".

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes people who are internally driven, and who as such may exhibit a sense of purpose and curiosity, as autotelic. This is different from being externally driven, in which case things such as comfort, money, power, or fame are the motivating force.

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There is already noun translation, autotélisme, but is there an adjective for it?

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Following standard French convention for adjectives (i.e., ending in -que), we have:

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