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reencounter

reencounter

6.8
A meeting with someone you know from before after time apart
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɪnˈkaʊntər/
translation icon : reencontrar
  • For the spiral-to-integration model, on the other hand, transcendence leads to a transformation of the self: the reencounter with transcendent forces initiates a transformation of the self by those forces.

Examples

  • After many years, their joyful reencounter brought back fond memories of their childhood.

  • The key to this reencounter lies in disco as a style of dance.

    Academic text (1991)
  • But there was that reencounter the night before in the drunk tank, and before that, there was the time in October, and it goes further back.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • How does the copyist respond to a reencounter with a section of text that he has shaped into a finial or spread out to form an eave bracket?

    Academic text (2015)
  • Trumbull experimented with water and paint running over a sheet of glass and shot at 1,000 frames per second, in addition to employing other extemporaneous methods in his attempt to provide the viewer a visual reencounter with nature, a representation of the beauty of the universe coming into formation.

    Academic text (2017)
  • According to the spiral-to-integration paradigm, in contrast, ego transcendence involves a reencounter with psychic and spiritual potentials that once, at the very outset of development, were active within consciousness.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The reunion was a heartfelt reencounter, filled with laughter and shared stories from the past.

  • She cherished their unexpected reencounter at the café, where they used to meet regularly.

Synonyms

recontact
vsreencounter
6.3

A second time of getting in touch with someone for more information

includes meeting or experiencing someone or something again, not only communication
re-experience
vsreencounter
5.2

A return of a past feeling or memory in your mind

also covers meeting someone or something again after time apart, not only feelings

Antonyms

39 3.7

Keeping away from something or stopping it from happening

Surface Forms

reencounter singular
reencounters plural

Morphology

reencounter = encounter (transparent) = re + encounter

This is regular re- prefixation meaning 'again', so a learner who knows the noun 'encounter' can readily infer 'an encounter again'.

Etymology

Reencounter comes from the parts re- 'again' and encounter 'meeting', so a reencounter is a meeting that happens again after time apart.