Redescribe

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To describe again. transitive

    "To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human."

Synonyms

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redefineredefinerespecifyrespecifyrestaterestate

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"To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human."

Etymology

From re- + describe.

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