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Atavistic
Atavistic meaning
Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes. | Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism. | Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
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His toleration of genocide is unforgiveable; his atavistic American instinct to offer a military response to any challenge is more of the arrogant Cold-War-era stance that was so much a part of his earlier political life.
Somewhere someone is burning off and there is the guilty atavistic pleasure in the smell of burning leaves and wood from the nearby forest.
Even as Kerala aspires to modern forms of commingled and cosmopolitan existence, internecine fights and ‘organizational factionalism’ have made the Muslim community seem to regress into atavistic forms of tribal affinities.
It’s only logical that today’s crisis would tap an atavistic nerve—although our fear of evacuation has morphed into doomsday anxiety about opening the door for the Postmates delivery guy.
Just brings out a totally atavistic fear.
Even domesticated animals have SSDRs, and in those moments it is seen that animals revert to atavistic standards and become "wild" again.
Humanity has progressively evolved an increasing reliance on intellectual faculties and a corresponding loss of intuitive or clairvoyant experiences, which have become atavistic.
The definitions create a diverse space (hence library data and anachronistic/atavistic worlds), within limits.