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Definition: ENTELECHY |
ENTELECHYNoun1. An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence. |
Date "ENTELECHY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Etymology: Entelechy \En*tel"e*chy\, noun. [Latin expression entelechia, Greek, probably from to be complete; completion, end to have or hold.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Production | Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ENTELECHY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ENTELECHY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
entelechy | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ENTELECHY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | psychoid (psychoid). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | psychoid (psychoid). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | psychoïde. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Psychoid (psychoid). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | entelechia (psychoid), finalita (psychoid), completamento (appendix, complement, completion, consummation, psychoid, supplement). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | entelechyay entelequia (psychoid). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"ENTELECHY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enteleky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ENTELECHY" (pronounced 'En*tel"e*chy'): Acouchy, Alectoromachy, Alectryom'achy, Autarchy, Batrachomyomachy, Centauromachy, Clechy, Cynarctomachy, Dinarchy, Duarchy, Gigantomachy, Gunarchy, Gynarchy, Hagiarchy, Iconomachy, Logomachy, Megalopsychy, Naumachy, Oligarchy, Orthostichy, Paparchy, Parastichy, Pentarchy, Plutarchy, Polarchy, Polyarchy, Psychomachy, Sciamachy, Sciomachy, sennachy, Synarchy, Tauromachy, Thearchy, Theomachy, Triarchy, Whiggarchy, Xenodochy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-l-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ethylene. | |
-3 letters: ethene, ethyne, eyelet, lychee, thence. | |
-4 letters: chyle, elect, ethyl, hence, leech, letch, lethe, lycee, lynch, techy, teeny, tench, yente. | |
-5 letters: celt, cent, cete, eche, eely, etch, eyen, eyne, heel, hent, hyte, lech, leet, lent, teel, teen, tele, thee, then, they, tyee, tyne, yech. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 54 45 4C 45 43 48 59 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - . .-.. . -.-. .... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01001100 01000101 01000011 01001000 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N T E L E C H Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004E 0054 0045 004C 0045 0043 0048 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)394854394639374259 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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