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  2. Neoteny - Wikipedia

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    Bogin points out that Kollmann had intended the meaning to be "retaining youth", but had evidently confused the Greek teínein with the Latin tenere, which had the meaning he wanted, "to retain", so that the new word would mean "the retaining of youth (into adulthood)". [15] In 1926, Louis Bolk described neoteny as the major process in ...

  3. Kidult - Wikipedia

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    When Christopher Noxon appeared on The Colbert Report on June 29, 2006, to promote his book Rejuvenile, he remarked that "There's a big difference between childish and childlike". Karen Brooks has written about what she calls the "commodification of youth": entertainers sell "the teen spirit" to adults who in the past were called "young at ...

  4. List of age-related terms with negative connotations - Wikipedia

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    Baby: Term often used to tease others for being childish or too young, or for behaving in an immature way. Bag lady: A homeless old woman or vagrant. Barely legal: [6] A term used to market pornography featuring young people who are "barely legal" (only just reached legal age of majority or the age of consent, or both). The term fetishizes ...

  5. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Akashic Records: (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life ...

  6. Child archetype - Wikipedia

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    The child archetype is a Jungian archetype, first suggested by psychologist Carl Jung.In more recent years, author Caroline Myss has suggested that the child, out of the four survival archetypes (child, victim, prostitute, and saboteur), is present in all humans.

  7. Faith - Wikipedia

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    The word translated as "faith" in English-language editions of the New Testament, the Greek word πίστις (pístis), can also be translated as "belief", "faithfulness", or "trust". [13] Faith can also be translated from the Greek verb πιστεύω (pisteuo), meaning "to trust, to have confidence, faithfulness, to be reliable, to assure". [14]

  8. All the same this faith has been largely justified so far by the success of scientific research. But, on the other hand, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest ...

  9. Religiosity - Wikipedia

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    Most dimensions of religiosity are correlated, meaning people who often attend church services (practice dimension) are also likely to score highly on the belief and spirituality dimensions. Nonetheless, an individual's scores on a measure of religiosity can vary between dimensions; they may not score high on all dimensions or low on all ...