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maldevelopment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
malde-vel-op-ment
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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").

noun

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

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

maldevelopments (plural)

Questions

What does maldevelopment mean?
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").
Where does maldevelopment come from?
It is traced to French.

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