undevelopment

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ development.

Noun

undevelopment (countable and uncountable, plural undevelopments)

1. The absence of development.
   • 1985, John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     For the “necessary” reliance upon aid, expertise, equipment from abroad—whether from East or West—which undevelopment seems to dictate raises again the specter of “compromise” that threatens to get out of control, of compromise that finds the means coming to shape the ends rather than the opposite.