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.

Common collocations

• vivid recollection Adjective + noun

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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