counterspectacle

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ spectacle

Noun[edit]

counterspectacle (plural counterspectacles)

  1. A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
    • 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road:
      Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=counterspectacle&oldid=72751883"