About The Word Atavism
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Atavism
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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
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