Primordial
adjective
Existing at the very beginning of time or existence.
The primordial stages of the universe
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Academic
adjective
Basic and fundamental, not changed or developed.
Primordial instincts drive the behavior of animals
Often appears as...
- primordial instinct
- primordial soup
adjective
Used in biology to describe cells or tissues that exist in an early developmental state.
The primordial germ cells are responsible for the development of an individual's reproductive cells
Often appears as...
- primordial germ cells
- primordial follicle
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Academic
adjective
Existing at the very beginning of time or existence.
The primordial stages of the universe
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Basic and fundamental, not changed or developed.
Primordial instincts drive the behavior of animals
Often appears as...
- primordial instinct
- primordial soup
adjective
Used in biology to describe cells or tissues that exist in an early developmental state.
The primordial germ cells are responsible for the development of an individual's reproductive cells
Often appears as...
- primordial germ cells
- primordial follicle
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Time's Origin
Use it to describe events or conditions present from the earliest point in time, often in cosmic or historical contexts.
Researching the primordial beginnings of Earth can be challenging due to scarce evidence.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concept
It can symbolize origins or fundamental characteristics of complex concepts.
He spoke of democracy's primordial principles with reverence.
Pro Tip 3/3Mythical Usage
Often found in mythological or religious texts to describe ancient powers or entities.
Primordial deities are usually associated with creation myths.
Pro Tip 1/3Time's Origin
Use it to describe events or conditions present from the earliest point in time, often in cosmic or historical contexts.
Researching the primordial beginnings of Earth can be challenging due to scarce evidence.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concept
It can symbolize origins or fundamental characteristics of complex concepts.
He spoke of democracy's primordial principles with reverence.
Pro Tip 3/3Mythical Usage
Often found in mythological or religious texts to describe ancient powers or entities.
Primordial deities are usually associated with creation myths.
Pro Tip 1/3Time's Origin
Use it to describe events or conditions present from the earliest point in time, often in cosmic or historical contexts.
Researching the primordial beginnings of Earth can be challenging due to scarce evidence.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concept
It can symbolize origins or fundamental characteristics of complex concepts.
He spoke of democracy's primordial principles with reverence.
Pro Tip 3/3Mythical Usage
Often found in mythological or religious texts to describe ancient powers or entities.
Primordial deities are usually associated with creation myths.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
all kinds of stuff, because uncontrolled chemical reactions produce a diverse mixture of organic compounds. Think of it like a primordial ooze, okay? And it's a pool that's too difficult to fully characterize, even by modern methods, and the product looks brown, like this tar here on the left. A pure compound
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Beyond the edge of the...
sea floor as black smoker chimneys so these are hot springs on the sea floor black smoker to me and they are the submarine analogue of terrestrial hot springs of geysers they are pretty spectacular to see very primordial looking temperatures 350 degrees Celsius coming out of here they're so hot
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The Hindu Interpretation...
cycles of creation okay and the primordial creation could be something like eight point six billion years of or actually this whole creation myth is very difficult to comprehend because we say the gods like Brahma has created the universe but then they ask a question
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Can a black hole be...
And while Hawking radiation has never been directly observed, some scientists believe that certain gamma ray flashes detected in the sky are actually traces of the last moments of small, primordial black holes formed at the dawn of time.
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The myth of Hercules: 12...
and earned a place in the divine pantheon. But his victory held an even deeper importance. In overcoming the chaotic and monstrous forces of the world, the hero swept away what remained of the Titans’ primordial order,
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Dare to refuse the...
to refuse every origin myth that claims you? What if we reject every single primordial origin myth and develop a deeper sense of personhood, one responsible to humanity as a whole rather than to a particular tribe,
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Juan Enriquez: Will our...
And soon thereafter there's enough material left over that you get a primordial soup, and that creates life. And life starts to expand and expand and expand, until it goes kaput. Now the really strange thing
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What We Know About Pluto...
very primordial object it's been out in a deep freeze you can think of it as a storage area your attic of some of the building blocks of our solar system Pluto's essentially a gold mine for
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Born to Rule by Roger...
Auto primordial status arm the solar system's firstborn not big enough to pick a fight for the Sun but big enough to protect small planets like Earth whatever the universe slings of me
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The legend of Annapurna,...
Lord Shiva— primordial destroyer of evil, slayer of demons, protector, and omniscient observer of the universe— was testing his wife’s patience.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
all kinds of stuff, because uncontrolled chemical reactions produce a diverse mixture of organic compounds. Think of it like a primordial ooze, okay? And it's a pool that's too difficult to fully characterize, even by modern methods, and the product looks brown, like this tar here on the left. A pure compound
Video examples
Beyond the edge of the...
sea floor as black smoker chimneys so these are hot springs on the sea floor black smoker to me and they are the submarine analogue of terrestrial hot springs of geysers they are pretty spectacular to see very primordial looking temperatures 350 degrees Celsius coming out of here they're so hot
Video examples
The Hindu Interpretation...
cycles of creation okay and the primordial creation could be something like eight point six billion years of or actually this whole creation myth is very difficult to comprehend because we say the gods like Brahma has created the universe but then they ask a question
Video examples
Can a black hole be...
And while Hawking radiation has never been directly observed, some scientists believe that certain gamma ray flashes detected in the sky are actually traces of the last moments of small, primordial black holes formed at the dawn of time.
Video examples
The myth of Hercules: 12...
and earned a place in the divine pantheon. But his victory held an even deeper importance. In overcoming the chaotic and monstrous forces of the world, the hero swept away what remained of the Titans’ primordial order,
Video examples
Dare to refuse the...
to refuse every origin myth that claims you? What if we reject every single primordial origin myth and develop a deeper sense of personhood, one responsible to humanity as a whole rather than to a particular tribe,
Video examples
Juan Enriquez: Will our...
And soon thereafter there's enough material left over that you get a primordial soup, and that creates life. And life starts to expand and expand and expand, until it goes kaput. Now the really strange thing
Video examples
What We Know About Pluto...
very primordial object it's been out in a deep freeze you can think of it as a storage area your attic of some of the building blocks of our solar system Pluto's essentially a gold mine for
Video examples
Born to Rule by Roger...
Auto primordial status arm the solar system's firstborn not big enough to pick a fight for the Sun but big enough to protect small planets like Earth whatever the universe slings of me
Video examples
The legend of Annapurna,...
Lord Shiva— primordial destroyer of evil, slayer of demons, protector, and omniscient observer of the universe— was testing his wife’s patience.
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Marina Abramovic
Serbian Artist
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.
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Alex Shoumatoff
American Writer
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
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Ezra Miller
American Actor
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
In the last 680 million years of the four and a half billion that this planet has existed, life has been determined by two principal forces: the warmth and the diffused energy of the sunlight coming through our atmosphere, and water. Those are the primordial forces of life - sunlight and water.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
Water represents to me, the beginnings of life, it is where we come from in our most primordial sense. It relates to some of our deepest subconscious thinking - it's a force we can't really see or understand, we just get glimpses of. But it's a part of us all.
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Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
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Joanna Lumley
English Actress
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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Laurie Anderson
American Musician
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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Marina Abramovic
Serbian Artist
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.
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Alex Shoumatoff
American Writer
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
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Ezra Miller
American Actor
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
In the last 680 million years of the four and a half billion that this planet has existed, life has been determined by two principal forces: the warmth and the diffused energy of the sunlight coming through our atmosphere, and water. Those are the primordial forces of life - sunlight and water.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
Water represents to me, the beginnings of life, it is where we come from in our most primordial sense. It relates to some of our deepest subconscious thinking - it's a force we can't really see or understand, we just get glimpses of. But it's a part of us all.
Quote examples
Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
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Joanna Lumley
English Actress
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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Laurie Anderson
American Musician
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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