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Telicity vs Helicity - What's the difference?

telicity | helicity |

As nouns the difference between telicity and helicity

is that telicity is (linguistics) the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense while helicity is the quality of being helical.

telicity

English

(wikipedia telicity)

Noun

(telicities)
  • (linguistics) The property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense.

    • Related terms

    * telic * atelic

    helicity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia helicity) (helicities)
  • The quality of being helical.
  • (physics) The quantized spin component of a moving particle