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The noun RECIDIVIST has 2 senses: 1. someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior). 2. someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior. Familiarity information: RECIDIVIST used as a noun is rare.
Recidivism (/ráµ»ËsÉªdáµ»vÉªzÉm/; from recidive and ism, from Latin recidÄ«vus recurring, from re- back and cadÅ I fall) is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they had either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or had been trained to extinguish that behavior.