Primitive
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Primitive (from Latin primus, first) refers to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. It can also refer to old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress. In biology it denotes occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
Primitive may refer to:
- Anarcho-primitivism, an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization
- Primitive culture, one that lacks major signs of economic development or modernity
- Noble savage, uncorrupted by the influences of civilization
- Primitive communism, a pre-agrarian form of communism according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Primitive Church, another name for early Christianity
- Primitive (phylogenetics) characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution, cf. basal
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Art
- Naïve art, created by untrained artists
- Neo-primitivism, looks to early human history, folk art and non-Western or children's art for inspiration
- Primitivism, an early 20th-century art movement
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