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单词 involutionary
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involutionaryadj.

/ɪnvəˈl(j)uːʃənəri/
Etymology: < involution n. + -ary suffix1.
Characterized by involution; retrograde.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [adjective]
relapsed1499
retrogradatea1550
revert1567
unwrought1726
involutionary1920
1920 Discovery Nov. 338/2 Our conceptions of psychical..‘regression’.., the backward or involutionary path of mental processes to more infantile conditions.
1942 Mind 51 146 The infinite series of causes to which Ethices I, xxviii [of Spinoza] refers is not a temporal regress to an impossible ‘first’ cause, but the involutionary sequence of eternal causes to a necessary First Cause.
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