What does "recrudescence" mean?
The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
Recrudescence
/ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
- Grammar: recrudescence is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: amendment, atavism, backset, backslides.
- Useful contrasts: dormancy, eradication, improvement.
- Usage evidence: The recrudescence of his old complaint was disheartening.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression. countable, uncountable
"The population of particular countries, or districts of country, may be given up to less improving pursuits than those of agriculture. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [i.e., land] to chronic poverty and waste."
- 2 a return of something after a period of abatement wordnet
- 3 The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement. broadly, countable, uncountable
"Very probably however, ſuppoſing Mr. Dwight's Account to be Fact, not more than one Conſtitution in one Million is liable to ſuch repeated and diſtant Recrudeſcences of this Diſeaſe."
- 4 The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike. countable, uncountable
"[Frédéric] Kirschleger describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of the fruit in Plantago, and a similar growth frequently takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinum majus, &c. In cases where a renewal of growth in the axis of inflorescence has taken place after the ripening of the fruit, the French botanists use the term recrudescence, but the growth in question by no means always occurs after the ripening of the fruit, but frequently before."
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Example
"The recrudescence of his old complaint was disheartening."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "recrudescence"?
Common synonyms include: amendment, atavism, backset, backslides, backward deviation, change of allegiance.
How do you use "recrudescence" in a sentence?
The recrudescence of his old complaint was disheartening.
How do you pronounce "recrudescence"?
Pronounced /ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/.
Etymology
From Late Latin recrūdēscentia, from Latin recrūdēscēns, present participle of recrūdēscere (“to recrudesce”), from recrūdēscō (“(of a wound) to break open again; (of a fight, sedition,...) to break out again, be rekindled”); from re- (“again”) + crūdēscō (“to grow harsh or violent; to become worse”) (from crūdus (“bleeding, bloody, raw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“blood outside the body”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs indicating a becoming of something)). The word is cognate with French recrudescence, Italian recrudescenza, Spanish recrudescencia, recrudecimiento.