NONACHIEVEMENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does nonachievement mean? • NONACHIEVEMENT (noun)
The noun NONACHIEVEMENT has 1 sense:
1. an act that does not achieve its intended goal
Familiarity information: NONACHIEVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NONACHIEVEMENT (noun)
Meaning:
An act that does not achieve its intended goal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
nonaccomplishment; nonachievement
Hypernyms ("nonachievement" is a kind of...):
act; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonachievement"):
failure (an act that fails)
error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)
carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)
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