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🔁 A repeated feeling 🔁 To feel again
re-experience

re-experience

5.2
A return of a past feeling or memory in your mind
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɪkˈspɪərɪəns/
translation icon : reexperimentación
  • Reading his old letters was a bittersweet re-experience of their friendship.

Examples

  • For many veterans, certain sounds can trigger a sudden re-experience of past events.

  • Can you describe your re-experience of that concert?

  • The movie brought a powerful re-experience of her childhood emotions.

  • I had a vivid re-experience of my first day at school.

  • Hearing that song again was a beautiful re-experience of my high school days.

  • The old photographs provided a nostalgic re-experience of our family vacations.

  • Watching the play brought a touching re-experience of the summer we spent together.

Synonyms

recollection
vsre-experience
116 3.8

A memory of something from the past or the act of remembering it

is a single lived instance not merely remembering a fact
flashback
vsre-experience
  • Specialized
45 6.5

A sudden strong memory that makes you feel you are living the past

is a general instance that need not be sudden or vivid
recurrence
vsre-experience
24 5.0

An event or problem that happens again, often at regular times

is one occurrence of feeling or living a past event not a repeated pattern
reminiscence
vsre-experience
9 6.0

A memory of something from the past

is an instance of feeling past events again rather than just remembering
reliving
vsre-experience
1 5.5

Experiencing a past event or feeling again in your mind

is a one-time instance not the whole process
reoccurrence
vsre-experience
1 5.8

Something that happens again

is specifically an instance of feeling or living a past event again
re-experiencing
vsre-experience
6.6

A feeling of remembering a past event as if it is happening again

is a single occurrence rather than the ongoing process

How Vivid

flashback
  • Specialized
45 6.5
re-experience
5.2
recollection
116 3.8
memory
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

re-experience singular
re-experiences plural

Morphology

re-experience = re-experience (transparent) = re + experience

The noun is a straightforward zero-derived use of the verb 're-experience' meaning an act or instance of doing it.

Etymology

Re-experience comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and experience meaning 'to feel or live through'. Think of it like a mental replay: a single event when you feel a memory or emotion again.