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What does telic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word telic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end.
  2. (grammar) That expresses an end or purpose.
  3. (linguistics) That expresses the perfective aspect.
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I have certainly become more telic as I strive to achieve my goals set, but I am not really enjoying any of it.
Directed or telic group behaviour doesn't allow the full spectrum of social language because it's constrained.
Hence the supernatural and telic forces, to which the scientist had had recourse, have been rendered superfluous.
In rare cases corresponding telic and atelic forms can be unrelated by meaning.
But these purposes and activities can enter experience in the two opposite ways defined by the telic and paratelic states respectively.
He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance.

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