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punctuationism

noun

Etymology

From punctuation + -ism.

  1. borrowed from punctuātiō — “a marking with points, a writing, agreement”
  2. suffixed as punctuationism — “punctuation + ism”

Definitions

  1. In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but…

    In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for punctuationism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA