redux meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

redux

adj

/ˈɹiːdʌks/ · /ɹiˈdʌks/

Etymology From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the publication of the novel Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

Postpositional Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265:

redux

noun

A theme or topic that is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
The band chased the video up with an acoustic redux of the track, as well as performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Macy’s annual Fourth Of July Spectacular in New York.2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, in NME:

Related terms: rediscuss, redo, redox