recollections
Stored past experiences
Recollections are memories—things remembered from the past.
The word often implies personal, somewhat distant memories retrieved with effort or prompted by circumstance: Her recollections of childhood were hazy but warm.
Recollections may be published as memoirs: His recollections of the war years became a bestseller.
Spoken or written memories
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- remembrancesItems preserving past moments
- memoirsWritten personal history
- recallMemory retrieval act
retrieval · reminiscing · episodic · autobiographical · childhood · youth · long-term · short-term
Tender sadness for absence
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
melancholy · hiraeth · sepia-toned · bittersweet · halcyon · golden · rose-tinted · bygone
Brief amusing accounts
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- recountingNarrating events from memory
- narrativeAccount of events
- talesSpoken or written narratives
oral-history · testimony · accounts · chronicle · saga · sharing · gathering · fireside
Technique for retention
- neurologicalOf the nervous system
- encodingConverting data to format
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- reconsolidationMemory re-storage after recall
hippocampus · synaptic · implicit · explicit · semantic · procedural · confabulation · amnesia
reminiscences
Spoken or written memories
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- remembrancesItems preserving past moments
- memoirsWritten personal history
recall · retrieval · reminiscing · episodic · autobiographical · childhood · youth · long-term · short-term · vivid
wistfulness
Tender sadness for absence
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- longingIntense, persistent desire
homesickness · melancholy · hiraeth · sepia-toned · bittersweet · halcyon · golden · rose-tinted · bygone · yesteryear
anecdotes
Brief amusing accounts
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- recountingNarrating events from memory
- narrativeAccount of events
tales · oral-history · testimony · accounts · chronicle · saga · sharing · gathering · fireside · elders
mnemonic
Technique for retention
- neurologicalOf the nervous system
- encodingConverting data to format
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
reconsolidation · hippocampus · synaptic · implicit · explicit · semantic · procedural · confabulation · amnesia · dementia
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, retain
- autobiographymemoir, life story, diary, journal, personal narrative
- life storiesautobiography, memoir, memoirs, biography, biographies
- memoirsmemoir, memoirs, autobiography, autobiographies, life story
- memoriesmemories, remember, childhood memory, childhood memories, reminisce
- personal narrativesautobiography, life story, memoir, personal history, personal accounts
recollectionspredictions
Forecasts of future events
forecasts · projections · anticipations · premonitions · expectations
recollectionsamnesia
Pathological loss of recall
forgetfulness · oblivion · memory loss · blackouts · erasure
recollectionsdocumentation
Written proof or instructions
records · historical facts · hard evidence · archives · photographs
- fuzzy recollection
- personal recollectionsIndividual's stored experiences
- false recollectionUntrue remembered event