Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation.
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(Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. (Achaic.)
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(Psychology) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.
... recurrence of images is that known since Hamilton's time under the name of "law of redintegration,"[6] which consists in the passing from a part to the whole, each element tending to reproduce the complete state, each member of a series the whole of that series. If this law existed alone, invention would be forever forbidden to us; we could not ... — Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot
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