recollection.

1. The act or capacity of remembering a past event, experience or information.

2. A remembered experience, detail or account.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• recollection of an event
• vivid recollection

On the page

Her recollection of the event changed when the earlier record was shown.

Vivid recollection did not establish that every remembered detail was accurate.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Singular recollection; plural recollections. Also uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: narrative transformation, conception and possibility, memory representation, anticipatory detail. Disciplines: literary writing, advanced general English, narrative analysis. Commonness: moderately common.