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rejuvenation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From rejuvenate + -ion, cf. Latin reiuvenatiō.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of rendering young again.
   • Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 204:
2. (countable, uncountable) The process of producing beneficial changes.
   • 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. 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51:
   • the rejuvenation of the city center

Forms

Deriveds

prejuvenation · photorejuvenation · rejuvenational

Relateds

rejuvenating · rejuvenate · age-reversal

Translations (24)

el αναζωογόνηση (the process of rendering young again) · cmn 回復 /回复 (the process of rendering young again) · fi nuorentuminen (the process of rendering young again) · bg подмладяване (the process of rendering young again) · da foryngelse (the process of rendering young again) · pt rejuvenescimento (the process of rendering young again) · nl verjonging (the process of rendering young again) · it ringiovanimento (the process of rendering young again) · eo rejuniĝo (the process of rendering young again) · es rejuvenecimiento (the process of rendering young again) · ca rejoveniment (the process of rendering young again) · de Verjüngung (the process of rendering young again) · fr rajeunissement (the process of rendering young again) · la reiuvenatio (the process of rendering young again) · la reiuvenescentia (the process of rendering young again) · ga athnuachan (the process of rendering young again) · no rejuvenering (the process of rendering young again) · sv föryngring (the process of rendering young again) · hy երիտասարդացում (the process of rendering young again) · ru омоложение (the process of rendering young again) · ja 若返り (the process of rendering young again) · pl odmłodzenie (the process of rendering young again) · ko 회춘 (the process of rendering young again) · hu megfiatalítás (the process of rendering young again)