habilitation

noun /həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/

1. Equipment; qualification.

   countable, uncountable

   For the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitation arms: and what is habilitation without intention and act?

2. An act of habilitating.

   countable, uncountable

3. 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.

   countable, uncountable

   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. The act of supplying money to work a mine.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

From Latin habilitatio, from Latin habilitāre.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry habilitation (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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