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NEOTENY
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I. (noun)
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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