redux means of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited. It carries an Arena rating of 1665, earned across 35 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, redux ranks #845 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #3,510 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #4,240 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #6,664 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words.
redux is pronounced /ˈɹiːdʌks/.
Why “redux” is a great word
REDUX — [Adjective] Of a topic or work, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited. From Latin *redux*, meaning "that returns" or "leading back," from *redūcō* ("to bring back"). First known use in English circa 1624. Unlike “revised,” which implies correction, or “reissued,” which denotes a new publication, *redux* emphasizes a cyclical return, imbued with a sense of conscious revival. It is the Victorian silhouette resurrected on a modern runway, a forgotten political slogan echoing in a fresh campaign, or a director's definitive cut of a classic film—the quiet admission that history is not a line but a returning current, and nothing is ever truly finished.
Etymology
From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the publication of the novel Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.
adj
- Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.e.g.“After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.”
noun
- A theme or topic that is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.e.g.“With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.” — 2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
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