"telicity" meaning in English

See telicity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /tiːˈlɪsɪti/ Forms: telicities [plural]
Etymology: telic + -ity Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷel-}}, {{af|en|telic|-ity}} telic + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} telicity (countable and uncountable, plural telicities)
  1. (linguistics) The property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense. Wikipedia link: telicity Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Related terms: telic, atelic, resultativity Translations (presenting an action or event as complete): teloselezh [feminine] (Breton), telicitat [feminine] (Catalan), teliciteit [feminine] (Dutch), télicité [feminine] (French), Telizität [feminine] (German), предельность (predelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), telicidad [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-telicity-en-noun-1GbfQ2VQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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