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Перевод: atavism

[существительное]
атавизм

Тезаурус:

1. The face is that of a Renaissance choirboy, or cupid, caught up in some act of Southern atavism.
2. I felt the shock of the old, of the Mummy smell, the atomised odour of atavism.
3. But atavism cannot be the whole story.
4. Libya had a wealthier, more urbanized, more stably employed population than any of them and, by every canon of development science, Libyans ought to have been less influenced by atavism than other North Africans.
5. Their causal theory was in terms of "atavism": that is, criminals were genetic "throwbacks" to more primitive human forms.
6. An atavism is a throwback, a "primitive" reaction (it literally means "great-grandfather's grandfather") - something the writer must know about in himself if his work is to resonate in his readers.
7. One commentator has referred to the "atavism" of pretending that Germany is a federation of states.
8. The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe.
9. Equally, however, the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground, nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism.