| 释义 |
involutionary, a.|ɪnvəˈl(j)uːʃənərɪ|
[f. involution + -ary1.]
Characterized by involution; retrograde.
1920Discovery Nov. 338/2 Our conceptions of psychical..‘regression’.., the backward or involutionary path of mental processes to more infantile conditions. 1942Mind LI. 146 The infinite series of causes to which Ethices I, xxviii [of Spinoza] refers is not a temporal regress to an impossible ‘first’ cause, but the involutionary sequence of eternal causes to a necessary First Cause. |
