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Atavism Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Atavism? [n] a reappearance of an earlier characteristic Synonyms \| Synonyms for Atavism: reversion \| throwback Related Terms \| Find terms related to Atavism: 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 \| Mnemosyne \| 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 See Also \| recurrence \| return Atavism In Webster's Dictionary \At"a*vism\, n. [L. atavus an ancestor, fr. avus a grandfather.] (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. Now and then there occur cases of what physiologists call atavism, or reversion to an ancestral type of character. --J. Fiske

Atavism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Atavism?

[n] a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

Synonyms | Synonyms for Atavism: reversion | throwback

See Also | recurrence | return

Atavism In Webster's Dictionary

\At"a*vism\, n. [L. atavus an ancestor, fr. avus a
grandfather.]
(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.

          Now and then there occur cases of what
          physiologists call atavism, or reversion to an
          ancestral type of character.         --J. Fiske

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