RESURGENCE
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)
Meaning:
Bringing again into activity and prominence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification
Context examples:
the revival of trade / a revival of a neglected play by Moliere / 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)