Meanings
adjectiveun-self-explanatory (not comparable)
- not comparableNot self-explanatory
Hawthorne Effect: This completely un-self-explanatory and technical sounding term describes a discovery that is basic to psychological experimentation.
1980, Denise Winn, The Whole Mind Book
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