redintegration
/ɹɛˌdɪntɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
redintegration means restoration to a whole or sound state. It carries an Arena rating of 1372, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, redintegration ranks #4,572 of 17,125 for Most Incisive Words, #4,800 of 17,130 for Most Ingenious Words, #5,190 of 17,140 for The Improbable, #5,222 of 17,114 for Most Satisfying to Say.
redintegration is pronounced /ɹɛˌdɪntɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/.
Why “redintegration” is a great word
Redintegration is the psychological restoration of a complete memory by the sensation of a single, partial stimulus that belonged to the original experience. From the Latin redintegrātiōn-, redintegrātiō, from redintegrare, meaning 'to renew or restore', itself from red- (expressing intensive force) + integrare ('to make whole'). First attested in the 15th century. Unlike reintegration, which mends a social body, or recollection, which is a general summoning of the past, redintegration is the sudden, involuntary restoration of a lost world. It is the scent of a particular soap flooding you with the entire atmosphere of a childhood bathroom; the timbre of a long-forgotten song reconstituting the precise ache of a summer evening; the feel of a worn fabric bringing back not just an image but the full emotional weight of a room—the whole waiting dormant in its scattered pieces, patient for the one true fragment that knows how to call it home.
Etymology
From the Latin redintegrātiō (“renewal, restoration, repetition”).
noun
- Restoration to a whole or sound state.
- Restoration of a mixture to its former nature and state.
- The reinstatement of a memory upon the presentation of a stimulus element that was a part of the stimulus complex that had aroused the event.e.g.“Now all this story might be true. But even if it were, it does not follow that reference to redintegration should be included as part of the definition of ‘motive’.”
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