Synonyms:
remembrance, recollection, anamnesis
Meaning: the ability to recall past occurrences
Synonyms:
recall, recollection, reminiscence
Meaning: the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"
Usage examples
I was intent upon the recollection, eager to fix and establish it.
It is so annoying to find what seemed a clear recollection prove a deceitful one!
It may appear a presumptuous thing to say, but my recollection seems of a finer color."
A rushing recollection of Maxineff's tragedies came to him, more vivid even than the face.
"I was only plaguing myself between my recollection of the stone and the actual look of it.
'You are--you are--' The man's eyes closed, as if the effort at recollection exhausted him.
"Oh, he did--or at least he thought he did," I replied, smiling broadly at the recollection.
Recollection was dulled in bodily pain, and, at first, thought was merged in physical suffering.
His thin lips curved for a second in the ghost of a smile, as though at some amusing recollection.
Instead of doing so, he flew into a great flutter at the recollection of some important business of his own.