redescription
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7.0
- noun
- /ˌriːdɪˈskrɪpʃən/
- The author's redescription of the event helped readers see it from a new perspective.
- form of redescription
Examples
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As rules and heuristic figures, doctrines offer normative specifications (Lindbeck) and redescriptions of Christian life.
Academic text (1991) -
And so the act of dropping the gun is in some sense only a redescription of what has long been a psychological fact for Robin.
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Redescription, then, simply becomes what life is like when lived under the sign of the poem.
Academic text (1990) -
No resolution to the dilemma will be found in a redescription of the form that is the human soul.
Academic text (2008) -
In other words, it is a metaphorical redescription of the domain of reality that is being "explained" by the model.
Academic text (2000) -
It is rather an instrument of redescription.
Academic text (1990) -
Yet from a pragmatic point of view, the criticism of culture can take many forms, including redescriptions of nature and experience.
Academic text (1991) -
As Richard Rorty explains, the aim is to correct through redescription the perception that produces the uncomfortable and unproductive mood.
Academic text (1997) -
Some social science theories and some interpretations of doctrine offer us more authentic possibilities of life than others because they present us with a more accurate redescription of our present reality.
Academic text (1991) -
In science, a model is a heuristic instrument that aims, by means of a fiction, to remove an inadequate interpretation of reality in order to make room for a new, more adequate one and, as such, functions as an instrument of "redescription" of reality.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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2.0
Doing or saying something again
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4.1
A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer
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4.9
An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance
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3.5
Saying or writing the same idea using different words to make it clearer
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5.6
Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly
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3.5
Putting something into different words to make it clearer
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9.9
Saying something in different words to make it clearer
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7.5
Expressing an idea again in a new, clearer way
Saying or writing something again in a different way to make it clearer
Saying someone else's words in a new way to make them clearer
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
redescription = redescribe (transparent) = re + descript + ion
Standard noun formation from the verb 'redescribe', meaning the act or result of redescribing.
Etymology
The word redescription comes from re- meaning 'again' and description, from describe, which means 'to tell or write about something'. So, a redescription is a description given again, often in a new or clearer way.