Edellyttämistä

Edellyttämistä is a Finnish noun derived from the verb edellyttää, meaning to require or to necessitate. It refers to the act or process of requiring something, or to the set of prerequisites and conditions deemed necessary for a particular outcome. As a nominalized form, edellyttämistä belongs to the class of nouns created by the suffixes used for verbalization in Finnish, and the -mistä ending marks its partitive or a related grammatical facet in many contexts.

In usage, edellyttämistä is typically employed in formal or technical language, such as policy documents, academic writing, or analyses that discuss prerequisites, conditions, or obligatory steps. The term emphasizes the notion of requirement as a process or activity rather than a static condition alone. It can appear in phrases that describe what a process or decision will demand from people, resources, or other factors.

Relation to other terms: edellyttämistä is related to edellytys (a precondition) and vaatimus (a requirement). While edellytys and vaatimus tend to name specific conditions or standards, edellyttämistä foregrounds the act of requiring or the implied set of prerequisites associated with a given situation. The word is most meaningful when the discussion centers on what must be met or provided for something to proceed.

See also: edellytys, vaatimus, edellyttäminen.