rejuvenation

Noun

rejuvenation (countable and uncountable, plural rejuvenations)

1. The process of rendering young again.
   • Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 204
2. The process of producing beneficial changes.
   • the rejuvenation of the city center
   • The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51