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Institutional vs Deinstitutionalization - What's the difference?

institutional | deinstitutionalization |

As an adjective institutional

is of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.

As a noun deinstitutionalization is

the process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.

institutional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
  • Instituted by authority.
  • Elementary; rudimentary.
  • (Webster 1913)

    deinstitutionalization

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • the process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm
  • The government began the deinstitutionalization of background checks for certain Federal jobs.
  • the process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained
  • The deinstitutionalization of minor offenders helps reduce prison overcrowding.
  • the process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment
  • After thirty years in the asylum, deinstitutionalization would present many problems.