teleological
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Explaining phenomena by reference to the purpose or end they serve.
Historians warn against a teleological narrative that reads the past as inevitable progress.
Law adjective
Interpreting a provision by reference to its purpose and objectives rather than its literal wording.
The Court favoured a teleological reading that advanced the directive's aim.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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