English Explanatory Dictionary

maldevelopment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus").
  2. Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.

Word forms

maldevelopment maldevelopments

Etymology

From French maldéveloppement, introduced as a human and social development term in France in the 1990s, to replace the words malformation or développement anormal. The word can be broken down as mal- (“ill”) + development.

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