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maldevelopment

noun

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.

  1. derived from maldéveloppement

Definitions

  1. The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way…

    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…

    Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA