primordial soup

Definitions

1. The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
   countable, informal, uncountable
2. A collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“While the number⟳ of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive⟳ serious consideration.”

“Freud would place⟳ in this primordial soup Eros and Thanatos, the tensions between life and death instincts; Jung would stress⟳ identification with universal archetypes.”

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