redintegration

[ red-in-ti-grey-shuhn, ri-din ]

noun

1. the act or process of redintegrating.
2. Psychology. reintegration ( def 3b ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of redintegration¹

1425–75; < Latin redintegrātiōn- (stem of redintegrātiō ), equivalent to redintegrāt ( us ) ( redintegrate ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

The will is thus the title appropriate to the final stage of a process, by which sensation and impulse have polished and perfected themselves by union and opposition, by differentiation and accompanying redintegration, till they assume characters quite unsurmised in their earliest aspects, and yet only the consolidation or self-realisation of implications.

From Project Gutenberg

Between these two unities, the nature-given nether-soul and the spirit-won over-soul, lies the conscious life of man: a process of differentiation which narrows and of redintegration which enlarges,—which alternately builds up an isolated personality and dissolves it in a common intelligence and sympathy.

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Emancipation—civilization—redintegration of a great nation, Paying no taxes, grinding no axes— Flinging the Ministers over the banisters.

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The function of logic is the redintegration of this experience.

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What is true of kidney changes applies also to corresponding changes in other organs, and there can be no question of any amount of will power bringing about the redintegration of organs that have been seriously damaged by disease or replacing cells that have been destroyed.

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Related Words

• reconstruction
• recovery
• refurbishment
• rehabilitation
• reinstatement
• renewal
• renovation
• repatriation
• revival