palingenesis
/ˌpælɪnˈdʒɛnəsɪs/
noun
- The rebirth or regeneration of something; a new beginning after a period of decline or destruction.
- The city's reconstruction after the earthquake felt like a true palingenesis.
- The artist's later work represented a creative palingenesis after years of writer's block.
- Some philosophers describe the cycle of death and rebirth as a cosmic palingenesis.
- In biology, the repetition of ancestral developmental stages in the growth of an individual organism.
- The tadpole's metamorphosis into a frog is an example of palingenesis.
- Palingenesis explains why human embryos briefly have gill-like structures.
- The scientist studied palingenesis in the development of marine invertebrates.
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