"atavism" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈætəˌvɪzəm/ [General-American], [ˈæɾəˌvɪzəm] [General-American] Audio: En-us-atavism.ogg [General-American] Forms: atavisms [plural]
Etymology: From French atavisme < Latin atavus (ancestor). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|atavisme}} French atavisme, {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} atavism (countable and uncountable, plural atavisms)
  1. The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Evolutionary theory Translations (reappearance of an ancestral characteristic): atavizëm (Albanian), атавизм (atavizm) (Bashkir), atavisme [masculine] (Catalan), 隔代遺傳 (Chinese Mandarin), 隔代遗传 (gédài yíchuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 返祖現象 (Chinese Mandarin), 返祖现象 (fǎnzǔ xiànxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), atavismus [masculine] (Czech), atavismi (Finnish), atavisme (French), atavismo [masculine] (Galician), Atavismus (alt: 1) [masculine] (German), atavizmus (Hungarian), áalíking [feminine] (Icelandic), atavismo (Ido), atavismo [masculine] (Italian), 先祖返り (senzogaeri) (Japanese), атавизм (atavizm) (Kazakh), атавизм (atavizm) (Kyrgyz), aaghooghys [masculine] (Manx), atavisme [masculine] (Norwegian), atawizm [masculine] (Polish), atavismo [masculine] (Portuguese), atavism [neuter] (Romanian), атави́зм (atavízm) [masculine] (Russian), atavizmus [masculine] (Slovak), atavismo [masculine] (Spanish), taavist (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-atavism-en-noun-HKyoHcyE Disambiguation of Evolutionary theory: 66 13 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ism, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 37 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 25 37 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 43 25 32 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 43 26 31 Disambiguation of 'reappearance of an ancestral characteristic': 67 27 7
  2. The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-atavism-en-noun-4GBy3pYd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 37 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 25 37
  3. (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sociology
    Sense id: en-atavism-en-noun-u8Loj24u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 37 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 25 37 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: atavist, atavistic, atavistical Related terms: throwback

Noun [Romanian]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], atavism [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], un atavism [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], atavismul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], atavism [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], unui atavism [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], atavismului [dative, definite, genitive, singular], atavismule [singular, vocative]
Etymology: Borrowed from French atavisme. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|ro|fr|atavisme|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} French atavisme, {{bor+|ro|fr|atavisme}} Borrowed from French atavisme Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|-}} atavism n (uncountable) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun-single|g=n|gpd=atavismelor|gpi=atavisme|gsd=atavismului|gsi=atavism|n=sg|npd=atavismele|npi=atavisme|nsd=atavismul|nsi=atavism|vp=atavismelor|vs=atavismule}}
  1. atavism Tags: neuter, uncountable
    Sense id: en-atavism-ro-noun-Tf1htJor Categories (other): Romanian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "word": "atavizmus"
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      "sense": "reappearance of an ancestral characteristic",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "reappearance of an ancestral characteristic",
      "word": "atavismo"
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      "word": "先祖返り"
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