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NONDEVELOPMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nondevelopment mean?
• NONDEVELOPMENT (noun)
The noun NONDEVELOPMENT has 1 sense:
1. failure of normal development to occur
Familiarity information: NONDEVELOPMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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