recollection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.

   One of his earliest recollections.

3. 3
   noun

   The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

   From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.

4. 4
   noun

   the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

5. 5
   noun

   the ability to recall past occurrences

6. 6
   noun

   something recalled to the mind

7. 7
   noun

   The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.

8. 8
   noun

   A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.

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”).