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habilitation

  • /həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

Where it comes from

From Latin habilitatio, from Latin habilitāre.

noun habilitations

  1. countable, uncountable Equipment; qualification. For the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitation arms: and what is habilitation without intention and act?
  2. countable, uncountable An act of habilitating.
  3. countable, uncountable An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification. At this same time Gadamer was at work on his habilitation with Heidegger. His habilitation, Plato's Dialectical Ethics, concerned Plato's understanding of the good, and its two leading concepts were dialogue and dialectic.
  4. US, countable, uncountable The act of supplying money to work a mine.

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noun postdoctoral academic qualification required for tenure

Españolhabilitación
한국어하빌리타치온 habillitachion
Portuguêshabilitação
Françaishabilitation
DeutschHabilitation
Italianoabilitazione
Ελληνικάυφηγεσία yfigesía
Русскийхабилита́ция xabilitácija

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"habilitation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/habilitation. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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habilitation. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/habilitation

Chicago

"habilitation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/habilitation.

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@misc{habilitation_2026,
  title = {habilitation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/habilitation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}