4th World

Proper noun

the Fourth World

1. Collectively, peoples living nomadic, pastoral, hunter-gatherer or other ways of life outside the modern industrial norm.
2. (Hopi religion) Synonym of Túwaquachi.

   Synonyms:

   Túwaquachi

3. (attributive, derogatory, informal) A notional standard of living or level of development lower than that in the stereotyped Third World.
   • “Three of the deadliest structural collapses in the last 10 years occurred in one county. That’s not even including the other structural failures that were not deadly. One county, dude. This is a third-world government and a fourth-world infrastructure, at the risk of insulting the fourth world.”2022 February 3, Joel Stein, “How Miami became the most important city in America”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2022