TELEOLOGY

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Meaning:

(philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("teleology" is a kind of...):

philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

Domain category:

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Derivation:

teleological (of or relating to teleology)

teleologist (advocate of teleology)