developmentalist

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

noun

1. an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of developmentalist¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Time