Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saltationism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: salta-tion-ism
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other."

Etymology

Etymology tree English saltation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English saltationism From saltation + -ism.

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

gradualism punctuationism

Questions

What does saltationism mean?: The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
Where does saltationism come from?: Etymology tree English saltation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English saltationism From saltation + -ism.

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