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NONACHIEVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonachievement mean? 

NONACHIEVEMENT (noun)
  The noun NONACHIEVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. an act that does not achieve its intended goalplay

  Familiarity information: NONACHIEVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NONACHIEVEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

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; deed; 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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