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   recollection

   /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action or faculty of remembering or recollecting something: "to the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him"
   • ▪ a thing recollected; a memory: "a biography based on his wife's recollections"

   Word Origin late 16th century (denoting the action of gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n-), from the verb recolligere ‘gather again’ (see recollect1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. recollective adjective

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   Recollection is a noun that means a memory of something or the ability to remember things. Learn how to use it in sentences, synonyms, idioms and translations.

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     RECOLLECTION meaning: 1. a memory of something: 2. the...

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   Recollection is the action or power of recalling to mind, or something recalled to the mind. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Recollection is either the process of remembering something or a specific memory. If someone says, "To the best of my recollection, I never met Ted," they're saying they tried to remember Ted and couldn’t. Basically, your memory is your recollection. You can also say your memories are recollections.

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   Recollection is the act or power of recalling something to mind, or remembering. Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of the word recollection with example sentences from various sources.

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   What does recollecting mean?

   • rec•ol•lec•tion /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃən/ n. [ uncountable] the act or power of recollecting or remembering or recalling to mind: a sudden flash of recollection. a memory:[ countable] He wrote down his recollections of the war. See -lec-. re-col•lec•tion (rē′kə lek′ shən), n. the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.

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   What is the difference between memory and recollection?

   • Basically, your memory is your recollection. You can also say your memories are recollections. You could have a recollection of a baseball game on your birthday. If you know that collecting is to gather things, it makes sense that recollecting is like the process of gathering your memories.

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   What does vivid recollections mean?

   • Here is a selection of your vivid recollections - and on the following pages, celebrities offer theirs too. If you have a recollection of something, you remember it. He has vivid recollections of the trip. 2 meanings: 1. the act of recalling something from memory; the ability to remember 2. something remembered; a memory....

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   Why is recollection important?

   • recollections of one's childhood. The act of recollection allows us to mentally time travel to a past event, and this allows us to imagine a future as well as a past. In that way, it’s helpful for recollection to render the memory of an event malleable, so that it may be integrated with the present.

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   If you have a recollectionof something, you remember it. Pat has vivid recollections of the trip. [+ of] He had no recollection of the crash. [+ of] Suddenly his mind filled with the recollection of a song she used to sing. She had a sudden burst of recollection and had to share it with me.

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   Recollection is the act or power of remembering something from the past, or the thing that is remembered. Find synonyms, antonyms, translations, and usage examples of recollection in different contexts.

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    Recollection is the ability or act of remembering something from the past. It can also be a thing that you remember. Learn how to use recollection in sentences and see synonyms and word origin.