atavism

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈætəˌvɪzəm/|[ˈæɾəˌvɪzəm]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence. countable,uncountable
    — She had lost the power to care about his faults. Strange, sweet, poisonous indifference! She was drugged. And she knew it. Would she ever wake out of her dark, warm coma? She shuddered, and hoped not. Mrs Tuke would say atavism. Atavism! The word recurred curiously.
  3. Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence. countable,uncountable
    — I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.

词形变化

atavisms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
atavist atavistic atavistical
相关词
throwback

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin at-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os
Latin avus
Latin atavus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French atavismebor.
English atavism
Borrowed from French atavisme.. By surface analysis, at- (“to”) + Latin av(us) (“grandfather, ancestor”) + -ism. Compare ancestorism.
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