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RECOLLECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
Example:
he has total recall of the episode
Synonyms:
recall; recollection; reminiscence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recollection" is a kind of...):
memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recollection"):
mind (recall or remembrance)
reconstruction; reconstructive memory (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall)
reproduction; reproductive memory (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall)
regurgitation (recall after rote memorization)
Derivation:
recollect (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The ability to recall past occurrences
Synonyms:
anamnesis; recollection; remembrance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recollection" is a kind of...):
memory; retention; retentiveness; retentivity (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something recalled to the mind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("recollection" is a kind of...):
memory (something that is remembered)
Context examples:
They begin to close again, and I begin to nod, as the recollection rises fresh upon me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I suppose, however—on recollection—that the case may probably be THIS.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
From herself to Jane—from Jane to Bingley, her thoughts were in a line which soon brought to her recollection that Mr. Darcy's explanation there had appeared very insufficient, and she read it again.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He wanted Jo for his heroine, and called upon his memory to supply him with tender recollections and romantic visions of his love.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Difficulty in recollection, or interruption of a train of thought or speech, due to emotional factors.
(Mental Blocking, NCI Thesaurus)
I stood still, therefore, and cast about for some method of escape; and as I was so thinking, the recollection of my pistol flashed into my mind.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He paused in his recollections long enough to envy them the spectacle he and Cheese-Face had put up.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have a dim recollection of a group of officials who crowded round me, endeavouring to soothe me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I suppose it was the recollection, so powerfully brought home to me by the grim surroundings, of that terrible experience in Transylvania.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The disorder is characterized by dissociative symptoms; vivid recollections of the traumatic event; avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event; and a constant state of hyperarousal for no more than one month.
(Acute Stress Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
