respecialization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of specializing again in a different way, especially in a different field or domain.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The process of specializing general roots, which is so much more prominent in the historical period of language than the process of generalization, is often only a respecialization of roots, at first special, then general, and at last special once more."
- "Proposals dealt with revision of personnel policies, career change options, support systems for faculty facing termination, exchange of faculty with other institutions, and respecialization in new or related subjects in order to meet needs of institutions and students in the 1980's."
- "After she completed her doctorate in applied research, she entered the postdoctoral respecialization program in clinical psychology at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, to obtain the equivalent of a doctorate in clinical phychology."
Etymology
From re- + specialization.