Definitions from Wiktionary (atavism)
▸ noun: The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
▸ noun: The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
▸ noun: (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
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▸ noun: The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
▸ noun: The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
▸ noun: (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
Similar:
throwback,
reversion,
atavist,
paedomorphy,
palingenesis,
pedomorphism,
ancestrality,
paedomorphism,
pedomorphy,
pleisiomorph,
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cultural,
social,
systematic,
political,
such,
intellectual,
psychic,
criminal,
religious,
mere,
pure
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