reconception
- noun
- /ˌriːkənˈsɛpʃən/
- Formal
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reconceptualización
- I wrote about the reconception of Christianity in the thought of William Earnest Hocking, of Yale and Harvard, and said it could never happen without the intelligent collaboration with our world religious neighbors.
Examples
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The reconception of practical theology as a devotional or spiritual genre of theological activity was the dominant response in both Roman Catholic and Protestant circles to the ascendancy of the university model of theology/science.
Academic text (1990) -
This critique and reconception are specifically responsive to the inherent threat posed by the perverse human propensity to mere conformity, and understanding them will enable us to appreciate that, and how, for Rousseau, a kind of continuous effort of self-transformation is essential to the possibility of an authentic society of freedom.
Academic text (2000) -
The General Will and Rousseau's Reconception of the Nature of Society
Academic text (2000) -
Rather, his response turns upon a pervasive critique of what I have called our received ideas of society and of law, and upon an effort to introduce a fundamental reconception of the nature of society and of law.
Academic text (2000) -
From what he has written, it is evident that Douglass's change of heart regarding what subjects he could publicly discuss came from a reconception of how he viewed himself.
Academic text (1999) -
The revised church of S. Lorenzo represented more than a mere functional transformation of its space; it involved a major reconception of the very spatial design of the church, especially with respect to historical precedent.
Academic text (2015) -
And Stefano Casertano proposes a reconception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that takes into account Russian meddling.
Academic text (2015) -
In insisting that the condition of society among a group is essentially a matter of the presence among them of a general will, and in insisting that a general will cannot be sustained among them by any concrete and established structures but only through being continuously willed anew, Rousseau is seeking to effect a radical reconception of the meaning of society.
Academic text (2000) -
Yet while enclosure, as Clare documents, closed off and transformed the spaces that were commons, it did not fully extinguish the practice of common right; enclosure encouraged in Clare's poetic work a reconception of the commons that reanimated claims to common right.
Academic text (2017) -
The architect's new project is a reconception of urban living that prioritizes green spaces.
Synonyms
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Thinking about something in a new way to create a different idea
How New
Surface Forms
Morphology
reconception = reconceive (semi-transparent) = re + conceive + tion
The meaning is the standard act/result noun from 'reconceive', but the stem alternation between 'reconceive' and 'reconception' makes the relation less immediately obvious to learners.
Etymology
Reconception comes from re- 'again' and conception 'forming an idea', like the familiar word concept. So a reconception is a new or changed idea you make after thinking about something again.