atavism

Significat (Anglès)

1. (countable, uncountable) The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
2. (countable, uncountable) The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
3. (countable, uncountable) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.

Conceptes

atavisme

salt enrere

Sinònims

reversion

throwback

throw-back

heredity

inheritance

revversion to type

Traduccions

atavisme

atavismo

atavismo

Atavismus

atavismo

αταβισμός

atavisme

κληρονομικότητα

atacılık

atavizm

Rückschlag

Atavismo

ataç

الأتافيزم

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈætəˌvɪzəm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

From French atavisme.