counterspectacle
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editcounterspectacle (plural counterspectacles)
- A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
- 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road:
- 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.