recapitulation Synonyms
Another word for recapitulation
• noun (Context 1)
An act or instance of summarizing and restating the main points of a speech, argument, or piece of writing.
"The professor concluded the lecture with a brief recap of the key historical events."
• noun (Context 2)
The third major section of a musical movement in sonata form, in which the musical themes introduced in the exposition are restated in the tonic key following the development section.
"In the first movement of the symphony, the reprise brings the secondary theme back in the home key of C major."
• noun (Context 3)
The largely discredited biological hypothesis that the embryonic development of an individual organism repeats the evolutionary stages of its ancestral species.
"Ernst Haeckel's theory of palingenesis was famously summarized by the phrase 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.'"
Opposites of recapitulation
The opposite of recapitulation shifts depending on context. Common opposites include: