noun
- restoration to a unified state.
- Psychiatry. the process of returning the mind to an integrated state after it has been deranged by psychosis.
- Psychology.
- the process of recalling an entire memory from a partial cue, as remembering a speech upon hearing the first few words.
- the tendency to repeat the response to a complex stimulus on later experiencing any part of that stimulus.
c.1600, from French réintegration (15c.) or directly from Medieval Latin reintegrationem; see reintegrate + -ion. Also in classically correct form redintegration.
n.
- Restoration to a condition of integration or unity.
- The return to well-adjusted functioning following mental illness.