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nonachieved en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + achieved.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not achieved.
    • Depending on the extent to which achieved or nonachieved criteria are used to select people for given roles, there may be predominantly achieved roles or predominantly nonachieved roles. 1973, Hans Dieter Seibel, The Dynamics of Achievement: a Radical Perspective, page 6:
    • those giving fewer than 10 false responses were designated in the nonachieved vocational identity group. 1997, Gary L. Hankinson, The Relationship of Vocational Identity and Other Mitigating Variables to Progress in Substance Dependence Treatment in a Therapeutic Community, page 66:
    • Leibniz makes an even more curious, brilliant, though dubious, assumption: he admits why and how rely on entirely different ways of thinking; but he suggests these questions are merely different perspectives of the same coherence—they are in harmony, indeed a nonachieved, hence "pre-established," a priori, harmony. 2010, Michael Gelven, Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 58: