maldevelopment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Noun[edit]

maldevelopment (plural maldevelopments)

  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.

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