developmentalist
[ dih-vel-uhp-men-tl-ist ]
noun
an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
Origin of developmentalist
1First recorded in 1860–65; developmental + -ist
Words Nearby developmentalist
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How to use developmentalist in a sentence
Its developmentalist policies, which cleaved to racial hierarchies, allegedly brought 700 million colonized subjects, considered “backward” and “childlike,” into the modern world.
Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign | Caroline Elkins | April 2, 2022 | Time
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