antirequisite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
adj
Acting as an antirequisite.
adj
Counter to human nature; tending to make people dysfunctional and to interfere with cooperation.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ". Some never stop talking about antirequisites. Others always advocate for splitting courses, and most get angry when the administration does not enforce prerequisites and corequisites."
- "Those indicating the student had taken a previous university French course were discarded, as were a small number of questionnaires indicating a Francophone family background (an antirequisite for both of these intermediate level courses)"
- "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."
- "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."
- "His book is about the conditions for requisite institutions and how to change antirequisite, “alienating, paranoiagenic, entropic” organizations."