rejuvenation

English

Rejuvenation: backward or forward?

Etymology

From rejuvenate +‎ -ion, cf. Latin reiuvenatiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rejuvenation (countable and uncountable, plural rejuvenations)

1. The process of rendering young again.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 204:

     Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation.

2. The process of producing beneficial changes.

   the rejuvenation of the city center

   • 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51:

     The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.

Related terms

• rejuvenate
• rejuvenating

Translations

the process of rendering young again

• Armenian: երիտասարդացում (hy) (eritasardacʻum)
• Bulgarian: подмладяване n (podmladjavane)
• Catalan: rejoveniment m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回復／回复 (zh) (huífù)

• Danish: foryngelse c
• Dutch: verjonging (nl)
• Esperanto: rejuniĝo
• Finnish: nuorentuminen
• French: rajeunissement (fr) m
• German: Verjüngung f
• Greek: αναζωογόνηση (el) f (anazoogónisi)
• Hungarian: megfiatalítás (hu)
• Irish: athnuachan f
• Italian: ringiovanimento
• Japanese: 若返り (ja) (わかがえり, wakagaeri)
• Korean: 회춘 (hoechun)
• Latin: reiuvenatio f, reiuvenescentia f
• Norwegian: rejuvenering f
• Polish: odmłodzenie n
• Portuguese: rejuvenescimento (pt) m
• Russian: омоложение (ru) (omoloženije)
• Spanish: rejuvenecimiento (es) m
• Swedish: föryngring (sv) c

See also

• age-reversal

Further reading

• rejuvenation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rejuvenation on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
• “rejuvenation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.