maldevelopment

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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").
2. noun Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.

Similar words

malformation dysgenesis hypoplasia anomalad dysontogenesis dysplasia stasimorphy dysmorphogenesis degradation monstrosity

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