atavism

Meaning of atavism

noun
  1. a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral.
    the more civilized a society seems to be, the more susceptible it is to its buried atavism

Information about atavism

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of atavism is: atavisms.
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Hyphenation of atavism

atavism

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • atavism is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

atavism synonyms

Meaning reversion:

reversion, throwback

Words that rhyme with atavism

Favism, Slavism, Vaishnavism, favism, paleoatavism, vaishnavism, vaisnavism, Bolshevism, Menshevism, adevism, bolshevism, menshevism, Jahvism, Yahvism, jahvism, Constructivism, Perspectivism, Progressivism, Saivism, Shaivism, activism, adjectivism, anticivism, arrivism, civism, collectivism, constructivism, corporativism, correlativism, descriptivism, destructivism, detectivism, electivism, emotivism, exclusivism, expressivism, fugitivism, incivism, introspectivism, intuitivism, nativism, negativism, neoconservativism, neoconstructivism, nonnegativism, nonobjectivism, objectivism, obstructivism, passivism, perspectivism

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