recollection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A memory of something from the past.

   One of his earliest recollections is playing in his grandmother's garden.

2. 2
   noun

   The act or ability of remembering things.

   That distant event is no longer within my recollection.

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”).

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