recollection

See also: re-collection

English

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

recollection (usually uncountable, plural recollections)

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

   Synonyms: reminiscence, remembrance

2. 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.

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

   One of his earliest recollections.

   - Thomas Babington Macaulay

4. (archaic or Catholicism) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

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

   In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.

5. (Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.

Alternative forms

• (collecting or concentrating the mind): re-collection

Synonyms

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• reminiscence
• remembrance
• memory

Derived terms

• recollective

Related terms

• recollect
• recollected

Translations

act of recalling to the memory

• Armenian: հուշ (hy) (huš)
• Bengali: ইয়াদ (bn) (iẏad)
• Catalan: record (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回憶／回忆 (zh) (huíyì)

• Czech: vzpomínání n
• Dutch: herinnering (nl), herinneren (nl) n
• Finnish: muistaminen (fi), muistelu (fi), muisteleminen (fi)
• French: souvenir (fr) m
• Galician: recordo m
• Georgian: გახსენება (gaxseneba)
• German: Erinnerung (de) f, Rückbesinnung (de) f
• Greek: ανάμνηση (el) f (anámnisi), αναθύμηση (el) f (anathýmisi), αναπόληση (el) f (anapólisi)
• Hungarian: emlékezés (hu)
• Japanese: 記憶 (ja) (きおく, kioku), 思い出 (ja) (おもいで, omoide), 回想 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)
• Korean: 기억 (ko) (gieok), 회상 (ko) (hoesang)
• Latin: recordatio f, recordatus
• Maori: mahara, pūmaharatanga
• Polish: wspomnienia
• Portuguese: recordação (pt) f
• Romanian: reamintire (ro) f
• Russian: воспомина́ние (ru) n (vospominánije)

power of recalling ideas to the mind

• Bulgarian: памет (bg) f (pamet)
• Catalan: record (ca) m
• Czech: paměť (cs) f
• Dutch: herinnering (nl), geheugen (nl) n
• Finnish: muisti (fi)
• Greek: ανάμνηση (el) f (anámnisi)
• Hungarian: emlékezet (hu)
• Latin: recordatio
• Maori: mahara
• Portuguese: memória (pt) f, recordações f pl
• Romanian: amintire (ro)
• Russian: сосредото́ченность (ru) f (sosredotóčennostʹ), со́бранность (ru) f (sóbrannostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhne f

that which is called to mind

• Bengali: ইয়াদ (bn) (iẏad)
• Breton: koun (br) m
• Catalan: record (ca) m
• Czech: vzpomínka (cs) f
• Dutch: herinnering (nl)
• Finnish: muisto (fi), muistelma, muistikuva, muistelo
• Greek: ανάμνηση (el) f (anámnisi), θύμηση (el) f (thýmisi), μνήμη (el) f (mními)
• Hungarian: emlék (hu)
• Ingrian: muisto
• Japanese: 記憶 (ja) (きおく, kioku), 思い出 (ja) (おもいで, omoide), 回想 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)
• Latin: recordatio
• Luxembourgish: Erënnerung f
• Maori: pūmaharatanga
• Portuguese: recordação (pt) f
• Russian: воспомина́ние (ru) (vospominánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhne f

archaic: the act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind

• Czech: zklidnění mysli n
• Latin: recordatio f

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• French: ^{(please verify)} mémoire (fr)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 記憶 (jìyì, ji4yi4, simplified 记忆)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ collection

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˌkəˈlɛkʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

recollection (countable and uncountable, plural recollections)

1. Process of collecting again.

Alternative forms

• re-collection

References

• “recollection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.