counterfinality (English, noun)
expansion: counterfinality (plural counterfinalities)
Senses:
glosses: A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in flooding and the loss of the same).
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency to increase ones value of or commitment to something when it involves unanticipated negative side effects.
Forms:
form: counterfinalities
tags: plural
form: counter-finality
tags: alternative