Other forms: reenactments
A reenactment is a staged repeat of a past event. A battle reenactment, a crime reenactment, historical reenactment.
Police stage one to jog memories, walking through a victim's last movements at the same hour a week later. Historical reenactment is a serious hobby, and the good societies research the stitching of a coat as carefully as the tactics.
1nounreenactmentA staged repeat of a past event.
“Every summer, volunteers in costume stage a reenactment of the famous battle.”
reenactment is a staging.
Also accepted in games: re-enactment
Re- plus enact plus -ment. Enact comes from Latin actus, a doing, from agere, to drive or do.
Latin
in- — in
Old French
en- — to cause to be
Middle English
enacten
English
enact
English, today
reenactment
Built from
From re + enact + ment. enact comes from Middle English enacten, from en-, from Old French en- (“to cause to be”), from Latin in- (“in”) and Old French acte (“perform, do”), from Latin actum, past participle of ago (“set in motion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA