nonfulfillment

Failure to deliver

Nonfulfillment is the failure to fulfill something—an obligation, promise, expectation, or requirement.

The term appears in legal and commercial contexts: nonfulfillment of contract terms, nonfulfillment of a warranty.

It can also describe personal disappointment: a sense of nonfulfillment in her career.

Also spelled non-fulfillment.

breach

violation

Breaking of rules

failure · dereliction · neglect · nonobservance · infringement · undelivered · reneging · nonpayment · liability · forfeiture

incompletion

unfinished

Not yet complete

unaccomplished · uncompleted · unexecuted · undone · outstanding · pending · unresolved · unconcluded · unfinalized · halfway

disappointment

letdown

Failure to satisfy expectations

disillusionment · dismay · regret · chagrin · disenchantment · displeasure · broken promise · dashed hopes · anticlimax · bitterness

potential

unrealized

Not made actual

dormant · untapped · unexploited · undeveloped · unactualized · missed opportunity · wasted · squandered · foregone · unreached

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Opposites
completion of obligations or goals

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State of achieved purpose

fulfilment · accomplishment · achievement · completion · execution

personal/emotional satisfaction

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State of achieved purpose

self-actualization · satisfaction · contentment · gratification · self-realization

Family

fulfill, fulfilled, fulfillment, fulfilling, unfulfilled, unfulfilling, unfulfillment

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G