Why this word is great
REVIRESCENCE — [Noun] The process of growing green or fresh again, or the renewal of youth or vigor. From Latin revirescens, present participle of revirescere ("to grow green again"), from re- ("again") + virescere ("to grow green"). Unlike "rejuvenation" (which strains backward toward lost youth) or "regrowth" (which merely charts the mechanics of return), revirescence hums with the quiet insistence of life reasserting itself. It is the first pale shoots piercing thawing soil, the sudden softening of an old man’s laugh, or the way a neglected garden, left to its own devices, will one day shrug off its brown shroud and stretch into the light—proof that renewal is not always earned, but sometimes simply given.