excluyente

Excluyente is an adjective in Spanish that denotes something that excludes or causes exclusion. It is commonly used to describe criteria, rules, or conditions that automatically filter out options or candidates. When a requirement is described as excluyente, meeting it is necessary and often non-negotiable for eligibility.

In practical contexts such as recruitment, education, or public procurement, the term is used with phrases like criterios excluyentes or requisitos excluyentes. Examples: "Los requisitos excluyentes para el puesto son formación universitaria y experiencia mínima de tres años." "La empresa eliminará a los candidatos que no presenten la certificación solicitada, como criterio excluyente." Non-excluding criteria are those that are desirable but not mandatory.

In logic and related disciplines, excluyente can refer to relationships or conditions that are mutually exclusive. The concept is often associated with the disyunción exclusiva, also called o exclusivo, in which exactly one of the operands is true.

Etymology: from excluir, with the suffix -nte to form an adjective; ultimately from Latin excludere meaning to shut out.

See also: exclusión, criterios de exclusión, disyunción exclusiva, o exclusivo.