atelic
Meanings
adj
- 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.
- That expresses lacking an end, resolution, or finite purpose.
- That expresses the imperfective aspect.
Word forms
Etymology
From a- + telic.
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