Definition for Recapitulation:

• That process of development of the individual organism from the embryonic stage onward, which displays a parallel between the development of an individual animal ( ontogeny) and the historical evolution of the species ( phylogeny). Some authors recognize two types of recapitulation, palingenesis, in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced during development; and cenogenesis ( kenogenesis or coenogenesis), the mode of individual development in which alterations in the development process have changed the original process of recapitulation and obscured the evolutionary pathway.

Synonyms for Recapitulation:

• n.

  •
  • summation,
  • sum,
  • summing up,
  • wrap up.
  •repetition (noun)
  • quote,
  • iteration,
  • reiteration,
  • recitation,
  • facsimile,
  • recurrence,
  • duplication,
  • reproduction,
  • echo,
  • replication.

Antonyms for Recapitulation:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    cenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, enlargement, caenogenesis, expansion, addendum, supplement, amplification, kenogenesis.

Homophones for Recapitulation:

• recapitualtion.

Hyponym for Recapitulation:

• n.

  • act
    composing, composition.
  • communication
    section, subdivision.