recurrence

Return or reversion to a certain state.

Noun

  1. Return or reversion to a certain state.
  2. The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
    • I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. - 1860, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theolog, Without Controversy:
  3. A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
    • Near-synonym: relapse

    Synonyms: relapse

    Antonyms: remission

  4. Recourse.

Origin

From recurrent + -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (“returning back, recurring”), form of recurrō (“to return, to recur”) (English recur).

Forms

recurrences

Synonyms

recurrency reoccurrence

Hyponyms

recrudescence reemergence resurgence

Related

recur recurrent recursive recursivity recursion

Derived

eternal recurrence nonrecurrence null recurrence oligorecurrence Poincaré recurrence time positive recurrence postrecurrence prerecurrence recurrence relation recurrence time