atelic
adjEtymology From a- + telic.
1
Presenting an action or event’s significance as being the process or experience instead of the end accomplishment or goal.
2
Not tending nor directed toward a goal or specific end.
3
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences That expresses lacking an end, resolution, or finite purpose.
4
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences That expresses the imperfective aspect.
- Antonyms
- telic
- Derived terms
- atelically