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NEOTENY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does neoteny mean?
• NEOTENY (noun)
The noun NEOTENY has 1 sense:
1. an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
Familiarity information: NEOTENY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("neoteny" is a kind of...):
evolutionary trend (a general direction of evolutionary change)
Derivation:
neotenic (of or relating to or characterized by neoteny)
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