recollection
(noun)
noun
1. the ability to recall past occurrences
Similar word(s): anamnesis, remembrance
Definition categories: thought, memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity
2. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
Similar word(s): recall, reminiscence
Definition categories: thought, memory, remembering
3. something recalled to the mind
Definition categories: thought, memory
Sentences with recollection as a noun:
- Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
- One of his earliest recollections." - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.