Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: recollection
IPA transcription: [ɹ,ɛkəl'ɛkʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.