recollection
See also: re-collection
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“to collect again”), itself from re- + colligere (“to gather”).
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Noun edit
recollection (usually uncountable, plural recollections)
- The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
- Synonyms: reminiscence, remembrance
- The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.
- Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
- That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
- One of his earliest recollections.- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- (archaic or Catholicism) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
- From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.
- In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.
- (Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
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- (collecting or concentrating the mind): re-collection
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Translations edit
act of recalling to the memory
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power of recalling ideas to the mind
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that which is called to mind
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archaic: the act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind
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Etymology 2 edit
re- + collection
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Noun edit
recollection (countable and uncountable, plural recollections)
- Process of collecting again.
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References edit
- “recollection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.