The property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense.(noun)
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Use "telicity" in a sentence
"Tropylium: "Except the usual analysis is that the distinction involves what's called the "telicity" of the action, that is, how complete the action on the object is.""
"Except the usual analysis is that the distinction involves what's called the "telicity" of the action, that is, how complete the action on the object is."
"Bilbo, can you reasonably guess at a definition for telicity?"