reinvention en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From re- + invention.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A reinventing of something.
There have been various reinventions of the wheel.
Personal reinventions fail partly for the obvious reasons: you set your goals too high; or your existing obligations at work or home get in the way; or you find (who could have imagined it?) that the unimpressive level of self-discipline you’ve demonstrated for your entire life until this moment can’t magically be tripled overnight.
2022 January 1, Oliver Burkeman, “New year, same old you! The secret to self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life”, in The Guardian:Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax.
2002, Art Tipaldi, Children of the Blues, P.67:Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.
2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025:
- (countable, uncountable) The condition of being reinvented.
Forms
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| reinventions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |