From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reconsideration \Re'con*sid'er*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), noun The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision
2: thinking again about a choice previously made; "he had second thoughts about his purchase" [syn: {second thought}, {afterthought}, {rethink}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "reconsideration": afterthought, commitment to memory, developed thought, exercise of memory, flashback, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, mature thought, memoir, memorization, memorizing, re-examination, reappraisal, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, rethinking, retrospect, retrospection, revaluation, review, revision, ripe idea, rote, rote memory, second thought, second thoughts, study
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