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degrowth

noun

Etymology

From de- + growth, a calque of French décroissance.

  1. derived from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow, become green”
  2. inherited from *grōaną✻ — “to grow, grow green”
  3. inherited from *grōan✻
  4. inherited from grōwan — “to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”
  5. inherited from growen
  6. suffixed as growth — “grow + th”
  7. prefixed as degrowth — “de + growth”

Definitions

  1. A negative growth (i.e. a reduction) of an economy or a population.

  2. A political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and…

    A political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and anticonsumerist and anticapitalist ideas.

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Derived

degrowther

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