Redefinition

noun

noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or event of redefining. countable, uncountable

    "George Orwell's novel 1984 proposed that people's thoughts could be constrained by the redefinition of words in their language."

  2. 2
    the act of giving a new definition wordnet

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"George Orwell's novel 1984 proposed that people's thoughts could be constrained by the redefinition of words in their language."

Etymology

From re- + definition.

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