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Archetypical

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Adjective

1. archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical

representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned

Example Sentences:
'archetypal patterns'
'she was the prototypal student activist'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Archetypical

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n.
1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' ... 'Dracula' ... 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' ... the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times).
2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
3. In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.

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