counterdevelopment

noun

counterdevelopment

noun

Etymology From counter- + development.

1

A development that counteracts another development.

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

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