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Institution vs Noninstitutional - What's the difference?

institution | noninstitutional |

As a noun institution

is institution.

As an adjective noninstitutional is

not institutional; not having the usual characteristics of an institution.

institution

English

Noun

(wikipedia institution) (en noun)
  • An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
  • The building which houses such an organisation.
  • A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
  • (informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
  • The act of instituting.
  • (obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
  • There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.

    Derived terms

    * academic institution * educational institution * research institution

    noninstitutional

    English

    Alternative forms

    *non-institutional

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not institutional; not having the usual characteristics of an institution
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 15, Harold Henderson, To Feed the World at Our Doorstep..., Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Addams did her best to run this institution in a noninstitutional way. }}

    Derived terms

    *noninstitutionally