reexperienced

Reexperienced is the past tense and past participle form of the verb reexperience, meaning to experience something again or to relive an event, emotion, or sensation. In everyday language it describes renewed encounters with a prior experience, whether sought or spontaneous, and can apply to positive or negative contexts.

Etymology and spelling: the term is built from the prefix re- (again) plus experience. The base verb can appear as reexperience or re-experience, with the latter often preferred in formal writing. The past tense is reexperienced, following standard English conjugation.

Usage and context: outside of general language, reexperienced and its related forms are frequently found in psychological and medical writing. In clinical contexts, the related noun and verb form re-experiencing is used to describe trauma-related symptoms such as intrusive memories, flashbacks, and distress triggered by reminders. While reexperienced can appear in narrative case prose to indicate that someone has undergone or recalled a prior event, the specialized literature more routinely uses re-experiencing to denote the symptom itself.

See also: related terms include relive, reminisce, and reexperience, as well as the broader concept of memory recall. In trauma research and clinical practice, distinctions are made between reexperiencing as a symptom and general reliving as a normal memory process.