atavism in Portuguese
atavism in Portuguese is atavismo — atavism means the sudden return of a trait from a distant ancestor after it had disappeared for generations.
atavism in Portuguese
atavismo
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
What does "atavism" mean?
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noun The sudden return of a trait from a distant ancestor after it had disappeared for generations.
"He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral."
- noun A return to an old way of behaving or doing something after it had not been seen for a long time.
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noun A return to more primitive behaviour, especially violent behaviour.
"I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity."
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atavism in a sentence
- He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
- I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.
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What is "atavism" in Portuguese?
"atavism" in Portuguese is atavismo. atavism means: The sudden return of a trait from a distant ancestor after it had disappeared for generations.
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