flashback

See also: Flashback, flash back, and Flash-back

English

Etymology

flash +‎ back

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæʃ.bæk/
• Hyphenation: flash‧back

Noun

flashback (plural flashbacks)

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

   Synonym: analepsis

2. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.

   Coordinate term: reminiscence

3. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
   • 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture):

     Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation? / The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

4. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
5. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
   • 2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference (page 497)

     As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table flashbacks.

   • 2004, Gavin J. T. Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples (page xxv)

     […] less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version flashbacks, and parallel queries.

Derived terms

• (dramatic device): inception flashback
• (flame): flashback arrestor

Descendants

• → German: Flashback
• → Spanish: flashback
• → Norwegian: flashback
• → Portuguese: flashback

Translations

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative

• Catalan: salt enrere m, analepsi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倒敘／倒叙 (zh) (dàoxù), 倒叙 (zh) (dàoxù)

• Danish: tilbageblik n, flashback (da) n
• Finnish: takauma (fi)
• French: retour en arrière (fr) m, analepse (fr) f, flashback (fr) m
• German: Rückblende (de) f, Rückblick (de) m, Flashback (de) m
• Greek: αναδρομή (el) f (anadromí)
• Japanese: フラッシュバック (furasshubakku)
• Korean: 플래시백 (peullaesibaek)
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• Malay: imbas kembali
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilbakeblikk n

  Nynorsk: tilbakeblikk n

• Portuguese: flashback (pt) m
• Russian: флэшбэ́к m (flɛšbɛ́k), ретроспекти́ва (ru) f (retrospektíva), обра́тный кадр m (obrátnyj kadr), ретроспе́кция (ru) f (retrospékcija)
• Spanish: analepsis f
• Swedish: återblick c, tillbakablick c, flashback (sv) c

a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs

• Catalan: flaixbac m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幻覺重現／幻觉重现 (huànjué chóngxiàn), 幻觉重现 (huànjué chóngxiàn)

• Danish: flashback (da) n
• Finnish: muistikuva
• German: Flashback (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: endurupplifun f
• Persian: فلاشبک (flâšbak)
• Russian: воспомина́ние (ru) n (vospominánije), взгляд в про́шлое m (vzgljad v próšloje)

a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug

• Danish: flashback (da) n
• German: Flashback (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

flashback (third-person singular simple present flashbacks, present participle flashbacking, simple past and past participle flashbacked)

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

Synonyms

• flash back

See also

• flashforward

Further reading

• flashback (narrative) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flashback (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• backflash, half-backs, halfbacks

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English flashback.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: flash‧back

Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks, diminutive flashbackje n)

1. flashback

Synonyms

• terugblik

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌflɛʃ.ˈbɛk/, /ˌflɛ.ʃi.ˈbɛ.ki/

Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. (narratology) flashback (earlier event inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative)

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Romanian

Etymology

From English flashback.

Noun

flashback n (plural flashbackuri)

1. flashback

Declension

Declension of flashback

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) flashback	flashbackul	(niște) flashbackuri	flashbackurile
genitive/dative	(unui) flashback	flashbackului	(unor) flashbackuri	flashbackurilor
vocative	flashbackule		flashbackurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaʃbak/ [ˈflaʃ.β̞ak]

Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. flashback

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “flashback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014