Revisiting

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of returning to a place or considering a topic again after some time
2. The process of coming back to a location or reviewing an issue once more
3. The action of making another visit to a site or re-examining a subject previously encountered

Etymology: "Revisiting" is the present participle of "revisit," so its story is really the story of the verb it comes from. That verb arrived in English from Middle French "revisiter," which in turn came from the Latin "revīsitāre," meaning to go to see again or to visit repeatedly. The Latin base is "visitāre," a frequentative of "visere," to look at or go to see, so the word's core idea is simply seeing or going to a place a second time. The English form is built from the prefix "re-," meaning again, attached to "visit," so the word literally means to visit again. Middle English already had "revisite" in use, which shows that the verb was familiar to speakers well before the modern era. Its sense has broadened over time from paying a second call on a person or place to returning to a subject, a book, or a decision for another look.

Synonyms: returning, reexamining, reconsidering