counterlaw

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ law

Noun[edit]

counterlaw (plural counterlaws)

  1. 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.
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