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to re-experience

to re-experience

5.5
To feel a past event or emotion again
  • verb
  • /ˌriːɪkˈspɪərɪəns/
: revivir
  • When I read that book again, I was able to re-experience the emotions I felt as a child.

And if I would try to dive in and re experience something, everything would disappear and then they would come back.

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Examples

  • Is it the pleasure the painting gives us, We the viewers perhaps allowing us to re experience a starry night?

  • People began to re experience the rabbi as if he were still alive.

  • To be able to have the power to go back and re experience those things is it's silly to me.

  • So that means we can re experience the the those exciting moments anytime, anywhere.

  • And if I would try to dive in and re experience something, everything would disappear and then they would come back.

  • And I go, OK, it's not, it's not going to impact me the way you think it is only because you, as you tell it, re re experience everything you went through.

  • They can re experience their whole life and it it doesn't matter how long they were clinically dead on earth.

  • Many people find comfort in music because it allows them to re-experience cherished memories from their youth.

  • Therapy can help individuals re-experience past traumas in a safe environment to process their feelings.

Synonyms

to relive
vsto re-experience
107 3.7

Feel or imagine a past event again in your mind

is to feel them again in the present rather than only remember
to recapture
vsto re-experience
26 6.0

To bring back a past feeling or quality

is to experience past things again more generally
to re-create
vsto re-experience
5.4

Picture a past scene again in your mind

is to feel past experiences again rather than just rebuild images

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

How Intense

to relive
107 3.7
to re-experience
5.5
to remember
∞ 1.0
to recall
∞ 2.4

Surface Forms

re-experience infinitive
re-experienced past participle
re-experiencing present participle
re-experiences third person singular

Morphology

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

This is regular prefixation: 're-' adds the meaning 'again' to the verb 'experience'.

Etymology

Re-experience is made of re- 'again' and experience 'to feel or live through'. It is like relive or replay — to feel a past event or emotion once more.