counterdevelopment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ development

Noun[edit]

counterdevelopment (plural counterdevelopments)

  1. A development that counteracts another development.
    • 2016, Peter Nynäs, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life:
      These counterdevelopments challenge earlier expectations about a linear progression of secularism and modernisation.