Associations to the word «Atavism»
Noun
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Wiktionary
ATAVISM, noun. The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.
ATAVISM, noun. The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
ATAVISM, noun. (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
Dictionary definition
ATAVISM, noun. A reappearance of an earlier characteristic.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.