MEANING
The process of restoring activity, energy, or prospects of success to something that has weakened.
Use it for
describing renewed cultural or economic activity; evaluating attempts to strengthen a declining institution; distinguishing renewed vitality from simple preservationDescribes renewed activity or strength without necessarily implying reconstruction or a return to an identical former state. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- economic revitalization
- language revitalization
- revitalization of a community
On the page
The program supported language revitalization through teaching and everyday use.
The essay argues that institutional revitalization requires renewed participation, not a new name alone.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- revitalization
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. British revitalisation is a spelling variant. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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