remotivation

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noun

A form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients.

OriginEnglish motivation ← Middle English motif ← Late Latin mōtīvum →
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Meanings

nounremotivation (countable and uncountable, plural remotivations)

plural remotivations

  1. countableuncountableA form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients.

    Neither reality orientation nor remotivation techniques helped these very old disoriented residents face present reality. Nor could they relate to the objects that the therapist used to stimulate awareness of present time in a remotivation group.

    1991, Paul K. H. Kim, Serving the Elderly: Skills for Practice, page 92

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Anglo-Normanmotif
  7. Middle Frenchmotif
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  10. Proto-Italic*moweō
  11. Latinmoveō
  12. Latinmōtus
  13. Late Latinmōtīvum
  14. Middle Englishmotif
  15. Englishmotive
  16. Englishmotivation
  17. Englishremotivation

From re- + motivation.

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APA

remotivation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remotivation

MLA

“remotivation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remotivation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “remotivation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remotivation.

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