📄 Not official advice ❓ No direction 🙅 No advice given

nonguidance

9.5

Refusing to give instructions to help someone learn on their own

noun
/nɒnˈɡaɪdəns/

: falta de orientación

The teacher's approach of nonguidance allowed students to explore solutions on their own.

Examples

A policy of nonguidance can be risky if team members lack experience.
Some leaders believe that nonguidance fosters creativity and independent thinking among employees.
The nonguidance from the committee surprised the students.
Many organizations promote nonguidance to foster creativity.
The teacher's approach of nonguidance allowed students to explore solutions on their own.
Some leaders believe that nonguidance fosters creativity and independent thinking among employees.
Many organizations promote nonguidance to encourage innovation and self-reliance.

Synonyms

nondirection

vsnonguidance

9.0

Lack of clear guidance in a group or organization

refuses to provide guidance as a deliberate policy to promote independence

Antonyms

guidance

248 2.1

Help or advice that someone gives to decide what to do

How Guided

walkthrough

4 3.5

guidance

248 2.1

direction

124 1.0

nonguidance

9.5

Surface Forms

nonguidance singular

nonguidances plural

Morphology

nonguidance = guidance (transparent) = non + guidance

Formed by the productive negative prefix 'non-' attached to the clear noun 'guidance', yielding a straightforward negation or absence meaning.

Etymology

Nonguidance joins the part non- meaning 'not' with guidance, from guide meaning 'to show the way'. A helpful way to remember this sense is that it is a choice to 'not guide' people so they can try and learn by themselves.