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coun·ter·stream | \ ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌstrēm 
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or counter-stream
plural counterstreams or counter-streams
Definition of counterstream
1 : a stream which runs counter to another
… those concealed rocks which I found when I was out in my boat; and which rocks, as they checked the violence of the stream, and made a kind of counter-stream, or eddy …— Daniel Defoe … there has been a counterstream of migrants returning from Britain and North America to many parts of the Caribbean …— George Gmelch
2 : something (such as a political, cultural, or religious system) that is different from or opposed to the mainstream … a convincing argument that the Appalachian religion is an authentic counterstream to modern, mainstream Protestantism. — The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture But there is a critical difference between counterstream and mainstream cultures. The counterstream cultures lived in harmony with their environment, because they either had to or they chose to.— Majda Bastic
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The first known use of counterstream was in 1719
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