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redescription

redescription

7.0
To describe something again in a new or clearer way
  • noun
  • /ˌriːdɪˈskrɪpʃən/
translation icon : redescripción
  • The author's redescription of the event helped readers see it from a new perspective.
  • form of redescription

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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

repetition
vsredescription
44 2.0

Doing or saying something again

normally involves a new or different way of describing rather than exact repeat
restatement
vsredescription
5 4.1

A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer

is the general act of describing again, often in a new form
reiteration
vsredescription
3 4.9

An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance

involves describing again but usually with a change rather than mere repeat
rephrasing
vsredescription
1 3.5

Putting something into different words to make it clearer

covers any describing again, not only changing words for clarity
recasting
vsredescription
1 5.6

Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly

is the general act of describing again rather than focusing on form change
rewording
vsredescription
1 3.5

Saying or writing the same idea using different words to make it clearer

is the wider act of describing again, not limited to word changes
reexpression
vsredescription
6.5

Saying or writing something again in a different way to make it clearer

focuses on the same act but stresses the describing aspect
rearticulation
vsredescription
7.5

Expressing an idea again in a new, clearer way

is the broader act of describing again rather than focusing on form
paraphrasis
vsredescription
9.9

Saying something in different words to make it clearer

is similar but not restricted to clarification purposes
revoicing
vsredescription
  • Jargon
5.7

Saying someone else's words in a new way to make them clearer

is the private act of describing again rather than a social restatement

How Different

redescription
7.0
paraphrase
7 4.2
restatement
5 4.1
repetition
44 2.0

Surface Forms

redescription singular

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.