Meanings
- not comparableIn terms of development.
a backward step developmentally
1 more example
Between 6 and 12 months, babies are more open to new foods — and new experiences — than they will be later on as toddlers, when a certain amount of “neophobia” or “new means no” is developmentally normal, Ms. Lipner said. “Normal kids transition through a normal pickiness phase,” around 18 months, she said, when “they’re also learning autonomy and control.”
2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018
Origin
- Englishdevelopment
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishdevelopmental
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishdevelopmentally
From developmental + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French développementalement
- développementalementin terms of development
Cite this entry
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