recollection

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the ability to recall past occurrences
  2. noun the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
  3. noun something recalled to the mind

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

remembrance, anamnesis

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