# habilitation

> English word · Noun · IPA /həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ · frequency rank #93,773

## Definitions
1. Equipment; qualification.
2. An act of habilitating.
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.
4. The act of supplying money to work a mine.

## Etymology
From Latin habilitatio, from Latin habilitāre.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/habilitation