NONDEVELOPMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Failure of normal development to occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("nondevelopment" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nondevelopment"):

agenesia; agenesis (imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part)

Antonym:

development ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

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