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resurgence

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,262 of 15,258mostly written

A resurgence is a rising again after a decline. A resurgence of interest.

It describes something that had nearly gone rather than something new. A resurgence of a disease follows falling vaccination as reliably as anything in medicine.

Definitions of resurgence

  1. 1nounresurgenceA rising again after a decline.C1

    “There has been a resurgence of interest in the whole period.”

resurgence is a rising.

Where it comes from

From resurge + -ence.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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resurgence in the wild

  • The words Tolu-e-Islam, meaning "dawn" or "resurgence" of Islam, were taken from "Tulu'i Islam", the title of a poem by the philosopher and poet Muhammad Iqbal.

    Tolu-e-Islam (organisation)

  • The 2008 financial crisis was followed by a global resurgence of interest in Keynesian economics among prominent economists and policy makers.

    2008–2009 Keynesian resurgence

  • Currently, it ranks 69th on the list of highest-grossing films, and was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film and sci-fi resurgence of the mid-late 1990s.

    Independence Day (franchise)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.