primordial soup en · NOUN
Meanings
- (countable, informal, qualifier:evolutionary theory, uncountable) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) A collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.
Freud would place in this primordial soup Eros and Thanatos, the tensions between life and death instincts; Jung would stress identification with universal archetypes.
2018, Vladimir Mirodan, The Actor and the Character, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:While the number of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive serious consideration.
1995, Nikolaos Zahariadis, Markets, States, and Public Policy, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| primordial soups | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
primordial ocean · primordial ooze · primordial sea
Translations (14)
hu ősleves (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · es sopa primordial (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · de Ursuppe (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · es caldo primordial (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · fi alkuliemi (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · tr ilkel çorba (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · nl oersoep (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · pt sopa primordial (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · ru перви́чный бульо́н (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · ka პირველყოფილი ბულიონი (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · sv ursoppa (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · fr soupe primordiale (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · pl zupa pierwotna (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history) · da ursuppe (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history)