Atavism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ATAVISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the reappearance of ancestral characteristics
• recurrence of a trait present in distant ancestors
• The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.
• The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
• a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral.
• biologic recurrence of traits of an ancestor in a subsequent generation.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the reappearance of a genetic characteristic after several generations of absence

Words related to ATAVISM

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Words that contain ATAVISM

atavisms13

How to use ATAVISM in a sentence

• I supposed the early dogs of this breed had been trained to night slaughter and savageness alone, and that it was a case of atavism, a recurrence of hereditary instinct.
• Two days of confinement in his room with a high pulse had brought reflection and the development of atavism.
• Shall I explain this by atavism? Was there a French man or woman in my family some half dozen generations ago? I have not inquired.
• He was white and sick and muttered something about atavism.
• It seems indeed an atavism, a return to modes of feeling that created the monuments of other ages, of barbarous and forgotten times.
• Rather did he suggest the present-day atavism of some robber baron of the Middle Ages, whose hectoring speech bubbled forth from a stout heart.
• Shall I explain this by atavism? Was there a French man or woman in my family some half-dozen generations ago? I have not inquired.
• An atavism from some remote Aryan ancestry inclined him, as in the case of so many Germans, to mysticism and the occult.

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