RESURGENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resurgence mean? 

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

1. bringing again into activity and prominence

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESURGENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bringing again into activity and prominence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification

Context example:

the Gothic revival in architecture

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

advance; betterment; improvement (a change for the better; progress in development)

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

rebirth; Renaissance; Renascence (the revival of learning and culture)

regeneration (the activity of spiritual or physical renewal)

resurrection (a revival from inactivity and disuse)

resuscitation (the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness)

Derivation:

resurge (rise again)

resurgent (rising again as to new life and vigor)

 Context examples 

It has since seen a resurgence partly due to vaccine hesitancy and vaccine inaccessibility.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)