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troglodytism

  • a word derived from troglodyte.
    troglodyte
    noun
    a prehistoric cave dweller.

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Phoenician art, which issued, as it would seem, originally from mere troglodytism, was, from the time when it arrived at the need of ornament, essentially an art of imitation.

From History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson