Usually means: Reverting to ancestral traits, behaviors.
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  1. atavist: Merriam-Webster
  2. atavist: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. atavist: Wordnik
  5. atavist: Wiktionary
  6. atavist: Dictionary.com
  7. Atavist (album), Atavist, The Atavist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. atavist: Rhymezone
  9. atavist: FreeDictionary.org
  10. atavist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. atavist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. atavist: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (atavist)

▸ noun:  A genetic characteristic emerging after an absence from several generations.
▸ noun:  A person of atavistic beliefs or habits.

Similar:
throwback, atavism, ancestrality, acquired characteristic, abbreviation, pleisiomorph, inheritance, genetic memory, aneusomaty, anacladogenesis, more...

Opposite:
modernist, futurist, innovator

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Similar:
throwback, atavism, ancestrality, acquired characteristic, abbreviation, pleisiomorph, inheritance, genetic memory, aneusomaty, anacladogenesis, more...

Opposite:
modernist, futurist, innovator



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