counterspectacle

noun

A spectacle set up in opposition to another.

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Meanings

nouncounterspectacle (plural counterspectacles)

plural counterspectacles

  1. A spectacle set up in opposition to another.

    Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.

    2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Origin

From counter- + spectacle.

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APA

counterspectacle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterspectacle

MLA

“counterspectacle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterspectacle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterspectacle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterspectacle.

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