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graduateness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English graduate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English graduateness From graduate + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate.
    • Some of the traditional properties of graduateness have more to do with the experience of being a student than with the education received. 1996, George MacDonald Ross, Quality and Enhancement: Graduateness:
    • The most promising approach to establishing shared, explicit standards seems to lie in exploring the generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate — this has come to be called 'graduateness'. 1995, Higher Education Quality Committee, “Executive Summary”, in British HEQC Interim Report, page 3:
    • 2006, The Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC): Quality Enhancement Group (1995), What Are Graduates? Clarifying The Attributes Of Graduateness, https://web.archive.org/web/20060926193403/http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/graduates/starter.html [6] The exploration in greater depth of the notion of graduateness is ... This suggests that an agreed notion of graduateness (or notions - if there turn ...