Synonyms for attainment
əˈteɪn məntat·tain·ment

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1. attainment

   Progress (Latin pro, forward, gradior, go) is a moving onward or forward, whether in space or in the mental or moral realm, and may be either mechanical, individual, or social. Attainment, development, and proficiency are more absolute than the other words of the group, denoting some point of advantage or of comparative perfection reached by forward or onward movement; we speak of attainments in virtue or scholarship, proficiency in music or languages, the development of new powers or organs; proficiency includes the idea of skill. Advance may denote either a forward movement or the point gained by forward movement, but always relatively with reference to the point from which the movement started; as, this is a great advance. Advance admits the possibility of retreat; progress (Latin progredi, to walk forward) is steady and constant forward movement, admitting of pause, but not of retreat; advance suggests more clearly a point to be reached, while progress lays the emphasis upon the forward movement; we may speak of slow or rapid progress, but more naturally of swift advance. Progress is more frequently used of abstractions; as, the progress of ideas; progression fixes the attention chiefly upon the act of moving forward. In a thing good in itself all advance or progress is improvement; there is a growing tendency to restrict the words to this favorable sense, using increase indifferently of good or evil; one may say without limitation, "I am an advocate of progress."

   Synonyms:
   advance, advancement, development, growth, improvement, increase, proficiency, progress, progression

   Antonyms:
   check, decline, delay, falling back, falling off, relapse, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppage

   Preposition:
   The progress of truth; progress in virtue; toward perfection; from a lower to a higher state.

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1. attainment

   Synonyms:
   information, acquirements, accomplishments

   Antonyms:
   intuition, inspiration, genius

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1. attainmentnoun

   the act of achieving an aim

   "the attainment of independence"

   Synonyms:
   acquirement, acquisition, accomplishment, skill

2. attainmentnoun

   arrival at a new stage

   "his attainment of puberty was delayed by malnutrition"

   Synonyms:
   acquirement, acquisition, accomplishment, skill

3. skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainmentnoun

   an ability that has been acquired by training

   Synonyms:
   science, accomplishment, acquisition, learning, acquirement, skill, achievement

Matched Categories

1. • Ability
   • Accomplishment
   • Arrival

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1. attainmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   attaining, getting, acquisition

2. attainmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   acquirement, accomplishment, erudition, learning, information, enlightenment, wisdom, stock of knowledge, mental resources

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1. attainmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   achievement, culmination, acquisition, accomplishment, acquirement

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1. List of paraphrases for "attainment":

   achievement, realization, achieving, achieve, accomplishment, fulfilment, realisation, pursuit, attaining, reach, realizing, implementation

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1. Samuel Smiles:

   Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

2. Georges Benjamin:

   We know that ZIP code matters, we know very clearly that things such as educational attainment, access and utilization of things like tobacco, physical inactivity, nutrition, the location of if they have access to things like grocery stores, all those things matter at the county level and at the local level.

3. James Allen:

   To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

4. The EPA:

   The agency will continue these collaborative efforts for any revised ozone standards, including working with California as it continues to explore regulatory strategies and technologies to reduce pollution and improve public health protection, california has faced a uniquely difficult attainment task due to the combination of adverse meteorology and topography, population growth, and the pollution burden associated with mobile sources.

5. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

   Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.