developmentalist

[ dih-vel-uhp-men-tl-ist ]

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noun

an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of developmentalist¹

First recorded in 1860–65; developmental ( def ) + -ist

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Example Sentences

Its developmentalist policies, which cleaved to racial hierarchies, allegedly brought 700 million colonized subjects, considered “backward” and “childlike,” into the modern world.

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