renaissance

/ˈrɛnəsɑns/

/ˈrɛnəsɑns/

A resurgence of excitement or interest in something is a renaissance. My sister is hoping for a renaissance of disco — she's been practicing her dance moves!

If, after avoiding carbohydrates for years, people start enthusiastically eating them again, you can describe this as a bread and pasta renaissance. It's a renewal or revival of interest in something temporarily out of favor. Another kind of renaissance is specific to art, literature, and culture, like the capital-R Renaissance in 15th- and 16th-century Europe or the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.

Definitions of renaissance

1. noun

   bringing again into activity and prominence
   synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification

   types:

   Renaissance, Renascence, rebirth

   the revival of learning and culture

   regeneration

   the activity of spiritual or physical renewal

   resurrection

   a revival from inactivity and disuse

   resuscitation

   the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness

   CPR, cardiac resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, kiss of life, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

   an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen

   type of:

   advance, betterment, improvement

   a change for the better; progress in development
2. noun

   the revival of learning and culture
   synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence, rebirth

   type of:

   resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification

   bringing again into activity and prominence