Antirequisite
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A previous course (or learning experience) that overlaps in content with a course offering such that students may not take that course offering for academic credit.
"Antirequisites affect the availability of a course in the opposite direction; if the antirequisite of course A has been taken, then the student cannot enroll in course A."
- 2 A condition that prevents something from occurring. broadly
"The key result of this Letter, however, is that hierarchical structure formation is not an antirequisite for the successful formation of disks: the adoption of a plausible physical model for feedback can indeed regulate star formation and avoid catastrophic AM loss."
- 1 Acting as an antirequisite. not-comparable
"Indeed, while we can imagine providing such explanations or elaborations, they would seem to be antirequisite if the metaphor is to remain literarily pleasing or effective."
- 2 Counter to human nature; tending to make people dysfunctional and to interfere with cooperation.
"His book is about the conditions for requisite institutions and how to change antirequisite, “alienating, paranoiagenic, entropic” organizations."
Example
More examples"Antirequisites affect the availability of a course in the opposite direction; if the antirequisite of course A has been taken, then the student cannot enroll in course A."
Etymology
From anti- + requisite; in the education sense, contrasted with prerequisite.
Coined by Elliott Jaques in contrast to his use of requisite to describe an organization that promotes positive and effective human interactions.
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