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View synonyms for recollection

recollection

[ rek-uh-lek-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or power of recollecting, or recalling to mind; remembrance.

    Synonyms: memory, recall

  2. something that is recollected: recollected:

    recollections of one's childhood.

    Synonyms: memoir, memory



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Other Words From

  • misrec·ol·lection noun
  • nonrec·ol·lection noun
  • self-recol·lection noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of recollection1

1635–45; < French récollection or Medieval Latin recollēctiōn- (stem of recollēctiō ), equivalent to recollēct ( us ) ( recollect ) + -iōn- -ion

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Example Sentences

It opens with Huckabee's dramatic recollection of going through security at the airport.

I had no memory of the other two, and that information was used to discredit my recollection of what had happened to me.

She woke up and realized she had no recollection of the past several hours.

Twenty-six years later, Su Meck is still learning about the family she raised and the husband she has no recollection of marrying.

Whose first recollection of sexual arousal was watching Jackie Earle Haley in Bad News Bears.

They are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.

That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.

My earliest recollection in connection with railways is my first railway journey, which took place when I was four years of age.

He cannot live; and the doctor says that neither speech nor recollection can return before he dies.

For many a day afterwards my cheek glowed with pleasure at the recollection of that sweet obeisance.

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