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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