reliving

1 5.5

Experiencing a past event or feeling again in your mind

noun
/rɪˈlɪvɪŋ/

: revivir

So when you have the nightmare and wake up, you are reliving one of the worst experiences you had.

Do you think there's something instructive about this emphasis of reliving memories in building AI systems?

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Examples

I am literally reliving being left out at a sleepover in middle school.
College was quite a fun time for me and I would not mind reliving that again.
But yeah, it was really tough reliving that stuff.
Was that all that I ultimately was doing was I was reliving a very painful memory.
One thing that happens with people with PTSD is they have the same repeated horrible nightmare, which is often a reliving of the day's trauma that that they had.

Andrew Huberman
And then there would be people reliving incredible traumas of different kinds, birth traumas, childhood traumas and so forth.
This endless reliving of history may have hurt the Who's legacy (imagine if they'd split in 1978), but now that they're reaching the end of their journey, it feels truly poignant.

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She often finds herself reliving her childhood vacations with a smile.
After the accident, he struggled with reliving the events in his mind every night.
The film was so impactful that viewers reported reliving its themes long after leaving the theater.

Synonyms

recollection

vsreliving

116 3.8

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

is an active process of feeling past events again often with strong emotion

reminiscence

vsreliving

9 6.0

A memory of something from the past

is a more immersive and emotional act of experiencing past events again

remembering

vsreliving

1 1.0

Thinking about events or experiences from the past

is an emotional sensory replay of past events rather than simple mental recall

re-experiencing

vsreliving

6.6

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

is the same general act or process named more broadly

re-experience

vsreliving

5.2

A return of a past feeling or memory in your mind

is the ongoing act or process rather than one particular occurrence

How Vivid

flashback

Specialized

45 6.5

reliving

1 5.5

recollection

116 3.8

remembrance

14 3.9

memory

∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

reliving singular

relivings plural

Morphology

reliving = relive (semi-transparent) = re + live + ing

This is a regular noun use of the verbal form 'relive' with '-ing', meaning the act or process of doing it.

Etymology

Reliving comes from the pieces re- meaning 'again' and living from 'to live'. So it literally means 'living again', a useful image for when you experience a past event or feeling one more time, especially as a memory.