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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
atavism
n 1: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn:
atavism, reversion, throwback]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Atavism \At"a*vism\, n. [L. atavus an ancestor, fr. avus a
grandfather.]
1.
(a) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the
original type of a species in the progeny of its
varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near
ancestors; reversion to the original form.
(b) (Biol.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease
of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an
intermission for a generation or two.
[1913 Webster]
Now and then there occur cases of what
physiologists call atavism, or reversion to an
ancestral type of character. --J. Fiske
[1913 Webster]
2. recurrence of or reversion to a past style, outlook,
approach, or manner.
[PJC]
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Thesaurus Results for Atavism:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Mnemosyne, aboriginality, affect memory, age, ancien regime, ancientness, anterograde memory, antiquity, backset, backward deviation, cobwebs of antiquity, collective memory, computer memory, disk memory, drum memory, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, emotional response, engram, falling back, great age, hoary age, hoary eld, information storage, inveteracy, kinesthetic memory, lapse, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, mind, mneme, old age, old order, old style, oldness, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, race memory, recollection, recrudescence, recurrence, regression, relapse, remembrance, renewal, return, reversal, reverse, reversion, screen memory, senility, seniority, setback, skill, souvenir, tape memory, throwback, venerableness, verbal response, visual memory |
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