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graduateness

graduateness noun: generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate.

Noun

graduateness (uncountable)

  1. Generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of graduateness

From graduate + -ness.

Questions about graduateness

What does graduateness mean?
Graduateness means generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate.
What part of speech is graduateness?
Graduateness is a noun.

Words near graduateness in the dictionary

  1. graduate theses
  2. graduate thesis
  3. graduated
  4. graduated cylinder
  5. graduated cylinders
  6. graduateness
  7. graduates
  8. graduateship
  9. graduateships
  10. graduating
  11. graduation

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