counterdevelopment

A development that counteracts another development.

Noun

  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:

Origin

From counter- + development.

Forms

counterdevelopments