undevelopment means the absence of development. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 66 out of 100.
Etymology
From un- + development.
noun
- The absence of development.“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.”