unprogress

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ progress.

Noun[edit]

unprogress (uncountable)

  1. The absence or reversal of progress.
    • 1912, The Unitarian Advance, volume 3, page 132:
      What more pitiable palsy on the attempt to make the world grow better at the point where its most subtle malady of unprogress lies could be imagined?
    • 1991, New Statesman Society, volumes 3-4, page 47:
      But even within the combustion engine era, the law of unprogress continues to apply.