Not damaged, ruined, or corrupted; still in a natural or original good condition.
From un- (not) + spoiled (past tense of spoil, from Old French spoillier meaning to strip or plunder). The meaning evolved from physical damage to include moral corruption by the 19th century.
This word became especially popular in the 18th century to describe untouched wilderness and 'noble savages,' revealing how Romantic-era Europeans idealized nature and indigenous peoples as pure counterweights to industrial society.
This word carries the gendered baggage of 'spoiled' as applied to women's sexuality and virginity; environmental use risks reproducing the same virgin/corrupted binary applied to female bodies.
For environments, use 'undeveloped', 'pristine', or 'biodiverse' instead. Avoid metaphors of purity that echo sexual control rhetoric.
["undeveloped","pristine","biodiverse","ecologically intact"]
Women's bodily autonomy has been controlled through 'spoiled' rhetoric; use neutral descriptors that don't replicate that language.
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