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Lusus naturae
A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.
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noun
- 1
A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.
- 2
An organism exhibiting marked such deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design; a freak of nature.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lusus naturae"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| monsternoun | A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind. |
| monstrositynoun | A monstrous person, thing, or act. |
| freaknoun | (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way. |
| naturehoodnoun | (rare) Synonym of nature. |
| sportnoun | (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. |
| nomogenynoun | The origination of life according to natural law, not by a miracle. |
| physiogonynoun | The production or generation of nature. |
| freak of naturenoun | In the variety-show business, a person or an animal on exhibition as showing some strange deviation from nature, such as a bearded woman or an albino. |
| wild typenoun | (biology, ecology) The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature. |
| spontaneitynoun | (uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous. |
| unnatural selectionnoun | (evolutionary theory, rare, sometimes humorous or derogatory) The selection of certain genes caused by the actions of humans, especially the intentional intervention in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits; eugenics, selective breeding or culling. |
| agenesisnoun | (pathology) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization |
| lusitropismnoun | The condition of being lusitropic |
| lichenismnoun | (biology) The symbiotic relationship that gives rise to a lichen. |
| natalitynoun | (demography) The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year. |
| anomalynoun | A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier. |
| lamarckianismnoun | Alternative form of Lamarckism. [(evolutionary theory, historical) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and especially, in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.] |
| thaumatogenynoun | (rare) The origination of life by a miracle rather than by natural law. |
| anormogenesisnoun | (biology, pathology) abnormal formation and development (of cells or tissue) |
| neo-lamarckismnoun | (biology, historical) Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by later biologists, especially as maintaining that the offspring inherits traits acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc. |
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