🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

no afiliación

Pronunciation / Transliteration: no a.fi.ljaˈsjon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Nonmembership/ˌnɒnˈmɛm.bə.ʃɪp/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Su no afiliación a la organización generó sospechas."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or condition of not being a member of a particular organization, group, society, or institution.

    "His long-standing nonmembership in the local club allowed him to remain neutral on community politics."
  2. 2

    In mathematics and logic, the relation of an element not belonging to a specified set.

    "The proof relies on demonstrating the nonmembership of the integer in the prime set."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived by combining the English prefix 'non-' (from Latin 'nōn', meaning 'not') with the noun 'membership', which originates from Middle English 'member' (from Latin 'membrum') combined with the suffix '-ship' (from Old English '-scipe', denoting state, condition, or office). The term emerged formally in administrative, political, and sociological contexts during the 19th century to denote the formal or functional absence of status as a member of a group, organization, or club.

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