Monikriteisessa

Monikriteisessa is a Finnish adjectival form typically encountered as an inessive case of a compound meaning "in the multi-criteria" or "in a multi-criteria context." It appears in phrases such as monikriteisessä arvioinnissa or monikriteisessä päätöksenteossa, where it describes processes, analyses or settings that involve multiple criteria or evaluation dimensions.

Etymology and grammar: the word is formed from the prefix moni- ("many") and a base related to kriteeri ("criterion"), with the -ssä ending marking the inessive case ("in" or "within"). As a grammatical form, it functions to locate an action or state within a multi-criteria framework (for example, "in multi-criteria assessment").

Usage and fields: monikriteisessa is found in academic and technical Finnish, especially in discussions of decision theory, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), optimization, environmental assessment and public policy, where trade-offs between several criteria must be considered. It is often used in adjectival phrases that qualify methods, models or processes.

Related terms: monikriteinen (multi-criteria, adjectival base), monikriteisyys (multi-criteriality, nominal), and expressions such as monikriteinen optimointi or monikriteinen arviointi. The term is primarily functional and descriptive rather than a standalone concept, serving to mark contexts in which multiple evaluative criteria are relevant.