counterspectacle

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ spectacle

Noun

counterspectacle (plural counterspectacles)

  1. A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
    • 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road
      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.
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