Associations to the word «Neoteny»

Wiktionary

NEOTENY, noun. (biology) The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
NEOTENY, noun. (biology) The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage.

Dictionary definition

NEOTENY, noun. An evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King