Dictionary Entry
teleology
teleology is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The doctrine of the final causes of things. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The doctrine of the final causes of things
- 2noun
the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
- 3noun
(philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
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