the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.

(in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

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atypical , unique

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average , classic , clichd , conventional , exemplary , hackneyed , model , most characteristic , paradigmatic , prime , quintessential , representative , standard , stereotypical , stock , textbook , trite , archetypic , archetypical , classical , prototypal , prototypic , prototypical , typic