RELIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reliving mean? 

• RELIVING (noun)
  The noun RELIVING has 1 sense:

1. a recurrence of a prior experience

  Familiarity information: RELIVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A recurrence of a prior experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

re-experiencing; reliving

Context example:

the reliving of a strong emotion can be therapeutic

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

experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)

Derivation:

relive (experience again, often in the imagination)

 Context examples 

Father and Mother sat together, quietly reliving the first chapter of the romance which for them began some twenty years ago.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)