reinterpretation
Noun
Meaning
a new or different interpretation
a new or different meaning
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
A daffynition (derived from daffy and definition ) is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words).
All of these are symptoms of the same disease: a manic reinterpretation of “democracy” in which everyone must have their say, and no one must be “disrespected.”
An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America.