counterspectacle

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ spectacle.

Noun

counterspectacle (plural counterspectacles)

1. A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
   • 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road:

     Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.