redintegration
Americannoun
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the act or process of making whole again; renewal
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psychol the process of responding to a part of a situation in the same manner as one has responded to the whole situation, as in the case of a souvenir reminding one of a holiday
Etymology
Origin of redintegration
1425–75; < Latin redintegrātiōn- (stem of redintegrātiō ), equivalent to redintegrāt ( us ) ( see redintegrate) + -iōn- -ion
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Creation hindered by complete redintegration, 22; in physiological inhibition, 6; Motor basis of, 258; Physiological and imaginative, 76; versus repetition, 5.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
He says that this suture insures the redintegration of the nerve much better.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
The function of logic is the redintegration of this experience.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
The like is true of the breakdown and redintegration of devout ritual after such a revulsion.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The disintegration of mental forms and their redintegration is the life of the imagination.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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