nonimprovement
English
editEtymology
editFrom non- + improvement.
Noun
editnonimprovement (countable and uncountable, plural nonimprovements)
- (uncountable) Lack of improvement; failure to improve.
- (countable) A change that is not an improvement.
- 2013, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, page 30:
- The rate of imitation was about the same among solutions that were improvements and nonimprovements, suggesting that improvements were often achieved by imitating a relatively successful participant's solution and then slightly tweaking this solution.