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Regrowth vs Degrowth - What's the difference?

regrowth | degrowth |

As nouns the difference between regrowth and degrowth

is that regrowth is that which has been regrown after removal while degrowth is a negative growth (i.e. a reduction) of an economy or a population.

regrowth

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • That which has been regrown after removal.
  • :After the forest fire, much of the regrowth consisted of invasive non-native plant species.
  • The process of regrowing.
  • :The eventual regrowth of the forest to its primeval state will take centuries, if not millennia.

    • degrowth

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia degrowth)
  • A negative growth (i.e. a reduction) of an economy or a population
  • A political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and anticonsumerist and anticapitalist ideas.