superordinate goal
noun
An objective which takes precedence over others; specifically (in Psychology and Sociology ) one which can only be achieved through the cooperation of a group, and which transcends the individual aims of those in the group.
Origin
1930s.
- scientificness
- scientific notation
- scientific racism
- scientific revolution
- scientific romance
- scientifics
- scientific socialism
- scientific socialist
- scientifiction
- scientisation
- scientise
- scientism
- scientist
- scientistic
- scientization
- scientize
- scientized
- Scientological
- Scientologist
- Scientology
- scientometric
- scientometrics
- sci-fi
- sci-fier
- scil.