recollection
pronunciation
How to pronounce recollection in British English:
UK [ˌrekəˈlekʃn]
How to pronounce recollection in American English:
US [ˌrekəˈlekʃn]
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- Noun:
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- something recalled to the mind
Word Origin
- recollection (n.)
- 1590s, "a gathering together again," from French récollection (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin recollectionem (nominative recollectio), noun of action from past participle stem of recolligere (see recollect). Meaning "act of recalling to memory" is from 1680s; a thing or scene so recalled, from 1781.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The useless , solitary recollection of something that never happened .
- 2. This briefly held form of recollection is called short-term memory .
- 3. My most vivid recollection of that summer is the ocean .
- 4. Smith and squire assessed the brain activity associated with the recollection of old and new memories .
- 5. They form much stronger likes for objects which they have previously chosen , despite having no conscious recollection that they had ever chosen them .