Counterdevelopment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A development that counteracts another development.

    "These counterdevelopments challenge earlier expectations about a linear progression of secularism and modernisation."

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"These counterdevelopments challenge earlier expectations about a linear progression of secularism and modernisation."

Etymology

From counter- + development.

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