atelic

Adjective

Meaning

Presenting an action or event’s significance as being the process or experience instead of the end accomplishment or goal.

Not tending nor directed toward a goal or specific end.

(grammar) That expresses lacking an end, resolution, or finite purpose.

(linguistics) That expresses the imperfective aspect.

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Achievements, accomplishments and semelfactives have telic situation aspect, while states and activities have atelic situation aspect. Source: Internet

In rare cases corresponding telic and atelic forms can be unrelated by meaning. Source: Internet

The aspect is indicated by the case of the object: accusative is telic and partitive is atelic. Source: Internet

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