Usually means: Excessive development harming natural balance.
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  1. overdevelopment: Merriam-Webster
  2. overdevelopment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overdevelopment: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. overdevelopment: Dictionary.com
  7. Overdevelopment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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▸ noun:  Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped

Similar:
overdevelopedness, hyperdevelopment, overcivilization, overextension, overmuchness, over-extension, overabundance, overelaborateness, excrescency, overoccupation, more...

Opposite:
underdevelopment, preservation, conservation

Types:
gentrification, urbsprawl, suburbanization, more...

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Similar:
overdevelopedness, hyperdevelopment, overcivilization, overextension, overmuchness, over-extension, overabundance, overelaborateness, excrescency, overoccupation, more...

Opposite:
underdevelopment, preservation, conservation

Types:
gentrification, urbsprawl, suburbanization, more...



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