in living memory
Within recall's reach
Within the span of time that people now alive can remember.
The phrase marks events or conditions as recent enough that firsthand witnesses still exist: the worst flood in living memory, No one in living memory had seen the comet.
It emphasizes both temporal proximity and the reliability of direct human recollection over historical record.
- recentOf the near past
- firsthandWithout intermediary
- generationalRelating to age groups
- moon landingCraft settling on satellite
- World War IISecond global military conflict
contemporary · oral history · family stories · passed down · nostalgia · anniversaries · lifespan · recallable · Great Depression · collective consciousness · civil rights movement · 9/11 attacks · eyewitness · modern-day · present-day · ongoing · commemorations · trauma
in living memoryancient history
Study of earliest civilizations
prehistory · antiquity · time out of mind · eons ago · ages ago
live, living, lived, lives, liver, lively, livelihood, alive, outlive