law An interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee).

Roget 777: possession, seizin [Law], seisin [Law]; ownership etc. 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality^†, dependency; villenage, villeinage^†; socage^†, chivalry, knight service.    exclusive possession, impropriation^†, monopoly, retention etc. 781; prepossession, preoccupancy^†; nine points of the law; corner, usucaption^†.    future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority^†; primogeniture, ultimogeniture^†.    futures contract [right of future possession; financial instruments], warrant, put, call, option; right of first refusal.    bird in hand, uti possidetis [Lat.], chose in possession.    ... show more

Roget 780: property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.], meum et tuum [Lat.].    ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority^†; empire etc. (dominion) 737.    interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure etc. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin [Law], seisin [Law].    absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.    limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie [Fr.]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.    dower, dowry, jointure^†, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy etc. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.    assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth etc. 803; money etc. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.    landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground etc. (earth) 342; acquest^†, messuage, toft^†.    territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.    manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium etc. (free) 748^†; fief, fieff^†, feoff^†, feud, zemindary^†, dependency; arado^†, merestead^†, ranch.    free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland^†; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.    personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage etc. 633.    parcels, appurtenances.    impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.    rent roll; income etc. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].    patent, copyright; chose in action; credit etc. 805; debt etc. 806.    ... show more

Roget 790: restitution, return; rendition, reddition^†; restoration; reinvestment, recuperation; rehabilitation etc. (reconstruction) 660; reparation, atonement; compensation, indemnification.    release, replevin [Law], redemption; recovery etc. (getting back) 775; remitter, reversion.    ... show more

Roget 117: posteriority; succession, sequence; following etc. 281; subsequence, supervention; futurity etc. 121; successor; sequel etc. 65; remainder, reversion.    ... show more

Roget 783: transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation^†; demise, limitation; conveyancing^†; transmission etc. (transference) 270; enfeoffment^†, bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange etc. (interchange) 148; barter etc. 794; substitution etc. 147.    succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.    ... show more

genetics A return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation).

A reappearance of an earlier characteristic.

synonyms: atavism, throwback.

Dutch: atavisme, terugslag
Polish: atawizm

Turning in the opposite direction.

synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround.

Returning to a former state.

synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion.

Roget 218: inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition etc. 237^†; contrariety etc. 14; reversal; turn of the tide.    overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset^†; culbute^†; revulsion; pirouette.    transposition, transposal^†, anastrophy^†, metastasis, hyperbaton^†, anastrophe^†, hysteron proteron [Gr.], hypallage^†, synchysis^†, tmesis^†, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome.    pronation and supination [Anat.].    ... show more

Roget 145: reversion, return; revulsion.    turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm.    alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; inversion etc. 219; recoil etc. 277; retreat, regression, retrogression etc. 283; restoration etc. 660; relapse, recidivism etc. 661; atavism; vicinism^†; ... show more

Dutch: teruggang, terugkeer
Polish: retrogresja

A failure to maintain a higher state.

synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting.

Dutch: hapering