Reliving

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Mentally experiencing a past event again as if it is happening now
2. Recall and feel a previous experience vividly in the mind
3. To go over memories of an event, feeling the emotions and details once more

Etymology: "Reliving" is the present participle and gerund of "relive", which is simply "live" with the prefix "re-" attached, meaning to live something again. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin, where it signalled return or repetition, and it has been a productive English prefix since the Middle English period, when it was combined with "live" to form the verb. Because the verb is built transparently from two familiar parts, its meaning follows directly from them: to experience again, most often a past event, emotion or memory. The word's history is therefore a straightforward case of an existing verb gaining a prefix, and the sense of re-living a past experience sits close to the original idea of living.

Synonyms: reexperiencing, replaying