Antonyms for recollection
ˌrɛk əˈlɛk ʃənrec·ol·lec·tion

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1. recollection

   Memory is the faculty by which knowledge is retained or recalled; in a more general sense, memory is a retention of knowledge within the grasp of the mind, while remembrance is the having what is known consciously before the mind. Remembrance may be voluntary or involuntary; a thing is brought to remembrance or we call it to remembrance; the same is true of memory. Recollection involves volition, the mind making a distinct effort to recall something, or fixing the attention actively upon it when recalled. Reminiscence is a half-dreamy memory of scenes or events long past; retrospection is a distinct turning of the mind back upon the past, bringing long periods under survey. Retrospection is to reminiscence much what recollection is to remembrance.

   Antonyms:
   forgetfulness, oblivion, obliviousness, oversight, unconsciousness

   Synonyms:
   memory, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection

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1. • Memory

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1. remembrance, recollection, anamnesisnoun

   the ability to recall past occurrences

   Synonyms:
   medical record, remembrance, reminiscence, commemoration, recall, medical history, memorial, anamnesis

2. recall, recollection, reminiscencenoun

   the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

   "he has total recall of the episode"

   Synonyms:
   anamnesis, reminiscence, remembrance, recall, callback

3. recollectionnoun

   something recalled to the mind

   Synonyms:
   anamnesis, reminiscence, remembrance, recall

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1. recollectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   remembrance, memory, reminiscence

How to use recollection in a sentence?

1. Gerry Connolly:

   That's not my recollection.

2. Prince Andrew:

   I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.

3. John Wisniewski:

   I have no recollection of her even sending me a text, it obviously was something of no moment or no import because I have no recollection of it at all.

4. Prince Andrew:

   I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever, you don't remember meeting her ?

5. Cesare Pavese:

   It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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