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resensation en · NOUN

Etymology

From re- + sensation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of reexperiencing a sensation.
   • Prior to the rise of memory, which first appears in recognition and then goes on to the more complex resensation, there is no background against which to register anything new. 2014, Marylou Lionells, John Fiscalini, Carola Mann, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis:
   • Their high level of form-perception and retentive memories are based on recognition, resensation and edetic imagery. 1964, Richard Ralph Straub, A View of the Levels of Perceptual Development in Autistic Syndromes, page 37:
   • The delight of the infant in the first resensations of something as being familiar is more readily comparable to the adult's pleasure in returning to a beloved countryside or home, or in meeting a friend again that it is to the much more frequent feeling of familiarity with which we barely look at our daily surroundings, only to relegate them to the unnoticed background. 1959, Ernest G. Schachtel, Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Psychology of Creativity, page 149:

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