REAPPEARANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reappearance mean? 

• REAPPEARANCE (noun)
  The noun REAPPEARANCE has 2 senses:

1. the event of something appearing again

2. the act of someone appearing again

  Familiarity information: REAPPEARANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAPPEARANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The event of something appearing again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the reappearance of Halley's comet

Hypernyms ("reappearance" is a kind of...):

appearance (the event of coming into sight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reappearance"):

egress; emersion ((astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse)

Derivation:

reappear (appear again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of someone appearing again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reappearance; return

Context example:

his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited

Hypernyms ("reappearance" is a kind of...):

appearance (the act of appearing in public view)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reappearance"):

comeback (return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity)

Derivation:

reappear (appear again)

 Context examples 

And now, poor girl! she was considerably worse from this reappearance of Mr. Elton.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Specifies whether this is a reappearance of the existing disease.

(Performed Diagnosis Recurrence Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

“Are you sure that you are really fit to discuss things? I have given you a serious shock by my unnecessarily dramatic reappearance.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Activation of lymphocytes results in the disappearance of sCTLA-4 followed by its gradual reappearance, whereas CTLA-4 increases after activation.

(Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

Traits with uncertain explanations include their gradual growth, their seasonal reappearance, their rapid fading when inactive, and the presence of hydrated salts, which have water molecules bound into their crystal stucture.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

Reappearance of cholestasis caused by obstruction within the liver by non-cancerous conditions.

(Benign Recurrent Intrahepatic Cholestasis, NCI Thesaurus)

How did I know that he was not lurking in the nearest clump of bushes, waiting for my reappearance?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From this state of humiliation, she was roused, at the end of ten minutes, to a pleasanter feeling, by seeing, not Mr. Thorpe, but Mr. Tilney, within three yards of the place where they sat; he seemed to be moving that way, but he did not see her, and therefore the smile and the blush, which his sudden reappearance raised in Catherine, passed away without sullying her heroic importance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I had stolen back to the cabin, slipped once more into my shoes, and laid my hand at random on a bottle of wine, and now, with this for an excuse, I made my reappearance on the deck.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But the manner of the speech, no less than the matter, was so fiery, that Miss Murdstone, without a word in answer, discreetly put her arm through her brother's, and walked haughtily out of the cottage; my aunt remaining in the window looking after them; prepared, I have no doubt, in case of the donkey's reappearance, to carry her threat into instant execution.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)