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Completion vs Irresultative - What's the difference?

completion | irresultative |

As a noun completion

is the act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.

As an adjective irresultative is

(linguistics) indicating an event or action not taken to completion, as with "i was writing" but not "i wrote".

completion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
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  • (label) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
  • (label) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
  • (label) The space resulting from such an act.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being complete) completeness

    Antonyms

    * (state of being or making complete) incompletion * termination

    irresultative

    English

    (wikipedia irresultative)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (linguistics) Indicating an event or action not taken to completion, as with "I was writing" but not "I wrote".

    • Synonyms

    * atelic