unilineal evolution
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The theory, now considered obsolete, that societies evolve in a single direction toward complexity, progress, and civilization.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Of course, when we speak in broadly evolutionary terms, to do so need not imply the simplistic notion of unilineal evolution, with the suggestion that human developments always follow the same sequential pattern."
Usage
Inflected Forms
unilineal evolutions (plural)