Avatar vs Atavism - What's the difference?
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In Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification.
* 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, dedicatory letter to Kidnapped [contrasting the historical Alan Breac with his incarnation in the novel].
(computing, or, gaming) A digital representation or handle of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. i.e. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room.
* 1992 (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash)
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The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.
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The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
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(sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
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As nouns the difference between avatar and atavism
is that avatar is avatar (the earthly incarnation of a deity, particularly vishnu) while atavism is the reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.avatar
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Alternative forms
* avatara (rare) * Avator (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- And honest Alan, who was a grim fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid...
- The people are pieces of software called avatars . They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.