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NONDEVELOPMENT
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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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