#atavic
- Atavistic — Pertaining to atavism; characterized by the unexpected reappearance of physical, anatomical, psychological, or behavioral traits that belonged to remote ancestors and did not manifest in intermediate generations. Broadly, the term describes an instinctive reaction, ancestral fear, or primitive habit that resurfaces in modern humans under certain crisis conditions.
- Atavistic — Pertaining to atavism, determined by atavism, or specific to it; exhibiting traits inherited directly from remote ancestors. Although in contemporary Romanian the predominant form recommended by academic standards is 'atavic', the variant 'atavistic' is occasionally used as a direct borrowing from Anglo-Saxon terminology or as a stylistic neologism in specialized literature to emphasize the primitive or ancestral character of a phenomenon.