English Explanatory Dictionary

preformationism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. the theory that all organisms start their existence already in a predetermined form upon conception and this form does not change in the course of their lifetime (as opposed to epigenesis)

Word forms

preformationism

Etymology

From preformation + -ism.

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