English-Finnish translations for atavism

• atavismi
  Tämä atavismi on poistettava mahdollisimman nopeasti. This kind of atavism needs to be eliminated at once.

Definition of atavism

• The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence
• The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence
• Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence

Related words

• atavistic
• patavine
• Patavine
• atavistically
• atavic
• Batavian
• Batavia
• patavinity
• dataviz