Home › Words › N › nondevelopmentnondevelopmentnondevelopment means lack of development, or failure to develop.EtymologyFrom non- + development.nounLack of development, or failure to develop.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.misdevelopment 75% match — Bad or wrong development. vs nondevelopment →underdevelop 74% match — To develop insufficiently. vs nondevelopment →underdevelopment 73% match — The condition of being underdeveloped. vs nondevelopment →nonadvancement 69% match — Absence of advancement; failure to advance. vs nondevelopment →nonformation 69% match — Lack of formation; failure to form. vs nondevelopment →undeveloped 68% match — Not developed or used. vs nondevelopment →misdevelop 68% match — To develop badly or wrongly. vs nondevelopment →maldevelopment 68% match — 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"). vs nondevelopment →