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What does atelic mean?

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  1. (linguistics) Presenting an action or event as being incomplete.
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Finnish and Estonian, among others, have a grammatical aspect contrast of telicity between telic and atelic.
It is well known that in languages with no overt aspectual morphology, telic predicates tend to be understood perfectively and atelic predicates imperfectively.
The secret to avoiding Schopenhauerian ennui, Setiya argues, is either to do things that are complete and atelic or to find ways of engaging with your projects atelically.
Atelic sentences do not signal whether any such goal has been achieved.
Certain middle-aged habits — golf, yoga, gardening — can help to create an atelic mind-set.
Achievements, accomplishments and semelfactives have telic situation aspect, while states and activities have atelic situation aspect.

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