counterspectacle

A spectacle set up in opposition to another.

Noun

  1. A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
    • 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. - 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road:

Origin

From counter- + spectacle.

Forms

counterspectacles