counterdevelopment

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ development

Noun

counterdevelopment (plural counterdevelopments)

1. A development that counteracts another development.
   • 2016, Peter Nynäs, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life:

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