recollection
See also: re-collection
English
Etymology 1
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Alternative forms
- (collecting or concentrating the mind): re-collection
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Translations
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
re- + collection
Pronunciation
Noun
recollection (countable and uncountable, plural recollections)
- Process of collecting again.
Alternative forms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recollection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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