Definition of backwardness in English:
backwardness
nounˈbakwədnəsˈbækwərdnəs
mass nounThe state of having made less progress than is normal or expected.
unification failed to remedy the economic backwardness of the south
technological backwardness
Example sentencesExamples
- Why does social backwardness achieve such success?
- The impetus and content of gangster rap may have originated in the desperation and backwardness of the inner-city population.
- They belong to the portion of society still doomed to backwardness.
- Its socioeconomic backwardness does not provide a satisfactory answer.
- We take note of the brutality of the conditions and the inevitable backwardness of the semi-rural area.
- This "hard-hitting" talk is simply an apology for ignorance and backwardness.
- Her backwardness threatened to prevent his acceptance in wider social circles.
- The filmmaker seems too prone to adapt herself to backwardness.
- An auxiliary theme is the conflict between city and countryside, backwardness and development, tradition and modernity.
- European conquest and the rights of indigenous peoples exemplify the moral backwardness of international society.
Definition of backwardness in US English:
backwardness
nounˈbakwərdnəsˈbækwərdnəs
The state of having made less progress than is normal or expected.
unification failed to remedy the economic backwardness of the south
technological backwardness
Example sentencesExamples
- Its socioeconomic backwardness does not provide a satisfactory answer.
- We take note of the brutality of the conditions and the inevitable backwardness of the semi-rural area.
- Why does social backwardness achieve such success?
- They belong to the portion of society still doomed to backwardness.
- European conquest and the rights of indigenous peoples exemplify the moral backwardness of international society.
- This "hard-hitting" talk is simply an apology for ignorance and backwardness.
- The filmmaker seems too prone to adapt herself to backwardness.
- An auxiliary theme is the conflict between city and countryside, backwardness and development, tradition and modernity.
- Her backwardness threatened to prevent his acceptance in wider social circles.
- The impetus and content of gangster rap may have originated in the desperation and backwardness of the inner-city population.