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 to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.