counterlaw
English
Etymology
counter- + law
Noun
counterlaw (plural counterlaws)
- A law that counteracts or opposes another law.
- 1997, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (page 79)
- Though one of the great laws of the Proustian universe is the incompatibility of knowledge and desire, one of its less well-known, yet not less powerful, counterlaws, is the interdependency of knowledge and desire, best illustrated, as we shall see, by the case of snobbery.
- 1997, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (page 79)