nonassociation
- noun
- /ˌnɒnəˈsoʊsieɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
no asociación
- In the study, researchers found a clear nonassociation between the amount of sleep a student got and their grades.
Examples
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The report highlighted a significant nonassociation between exercise frequency and levels of anxiety in participants.
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Despite many assumptions, the analysis showed a nonassociation between smoking and the risk of developing the disease.
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Thus, although the absence of the extrinsic need signified internal LOC beliefs, the nonassociation between an intrinsic need and LOC may have been the result of the absence of opportunities to behave according to a strong need.
Academic text (1994) -
Thus, although nAch, expectations, and behavior are not necessarily associated, measures of nAch may have become confused among these factors, thus causing nonassociation between nAch and LOC (Phares, 1976, p. 110).
Academic text (1994)
Antonyms
How Related
- Specialized
93
4.6
- Specialized
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8.7
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonassociation = association (transparent) = non + association
Negation of the noun 'association' used in statistical contexts; the meaning 'no association' is directly inferable.
Etymology
Nonassociation comes from non- 'not' and association 'connection', the same root as social and society from an old word for 'companion'. In research a nonassociation means there is 'no connection' or relationship between two things.