"unteleological" meaning in English

See unteleological in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unteleological (not comparable)
  1. Not teleological; not directed toward a set purpose or end. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-unteleological-en-adj-u3Qr4joM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for unteleological meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "unteleological (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Thorstein Veblen, “Socialist economics of Karl Marx and his followers”, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 20, page 581",
          "text": "A consistently materialistic conception, consistently adhering to a materialistic interpretation of the process of development as well as of the facts involved in the process, could scarcely avoid making its putative dialectic struggle a mere unconscious and irrelevant conflict of the brute material forces. This would have amounted to an interpretation in terms of opaque cause and effect, without recourse to the concept of a conscious class struggle, and it might have led to a concept of evolution similar to the unteleological Darwinian concept of natural selection.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Part 2, Chapter 4",
          "text": "The essence, the fundamental mood of all Greek thought, lay in the problem of the immediate present, in the quest of an ars vivendi. Upon this confined, unteleological aspect of existence, the idea of man’s spiritual purpose seldom intruded.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not teleological; not directed toward a set purpose or end."
      ],
      "id": "en-unteleological-en-adj-u3Qr4joM",
      "links": [
        [
          "teleological",
          "teleological"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unteleological"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "unteleological (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Thorstein Veblen, “Socialist economics of Karl Marx and his followers”, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 20, page 581",
          "text": "A consistently materialistic conception, consistently adhering to a materialistic interpretation of the process of development as well as of the facts involved in the process, could scarcely avoid making its putative dialectic struggle a mere unconscious and irrelevant conflict of the brute material forces. This would have amounted to an interpretation in terms of opaque cause and effect, without recourse to the concept of a conscious class struggle, and it might have led to a concept of evolution similar to the unteleological Darwinian concept of natural selection.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Part 2, Chapter 4",
          "text": "The essence, the fundamental mood of all Greek thought, lay in the problem of the immediate present, in the quest of an ars vivendi. Upon this confined, unteleological aspect of existence, the idea of man’s spiritual purpose seldom intruded.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not teleological; not directed toward a set purpose or end."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "teleological",
          "teleological"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unteleological"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (91e95e7 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.