redescription
- 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.
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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.
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As Richard Rorty explains, the aim is to correct through redescription the perception that produces the uncomfortable and unproductive mood.
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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.
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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
Doing or saying something again
A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer
An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance
Putting something into different words to make it clearer
Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly
Saying or writing the same idea using different words to make it clearer
Saying or writing something again in a different way to make it clearer
Expressing an idea again in a new, clearer way
Saying something in different words 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.