recounting
Relating past events
Recounting is the act of narrating or describing events in detail: Her recounting of the accident differed from the official report.
The word emphasizes telling a story or giving an account of what happened.
A recounting can also be a fresh count of something, especially votes in a close election: The recounting revealed several errors in the original tally.
Recounting events aloud
- narrationVerbal account delivery
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- anecdoteBrief account of incident
- chronicleOrdered historical record
memoir · biography · saga · yarn · reminiscence · retelling · relating · describing
Recalling past experiences
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- retrospectionContemplating past events
- memoriesStored past experiences
autobiographical · episodic · childhood · remembering · reflecting · reliving · revisiting · conjuring
Voting forms
- votesFormal choices recorded
- tallyRecorded count
- tabulationOrganizing data systematically
- resultsWhat follows from effort
certification · precincts · polling · scrutiny · dispute · irregularities · chads · contested
Summing items systematically
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
- numberingAssigning sequential figures
- listingRecorded item in catalog
- itemizingListing things individually
cataloging · inventorying · totaling · summing · calculating · tabulating · enumerating · quantifying
storytelling
Recounting events aloud
chronicle · memoir · biography · saga · yarn · reminiscence · retelling · relating · describing · detailing
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- retrospectionContemplating past events
memories · autobiographical · episodic · childhood · remembering · reflecting · reliving · revisiting · conjuring · evoking
ballots
Voting forms
- votesFormal choices recorded
- tallyRecorded count
- tabulationOrganizing data systematically
results · certification · precincts · polling · scrutiny · dispute · irregularities · chads · contested · margins
tallying
Summing items systematically
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
- numberingAssigning sequential figures
- listingRecorded item in catalog
itemizing · cataloging · inventorying · totaling · summing · calculating · tabulating · enumerating · quantifying · auditing
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- communicatingtalking, speaking, telling, sharing, expressing
- tall talesPaul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett
- Relatinglinking, connecting, pertaining, associating, correlating
recountingconcealing
Keeping something secret
withholding · suppressing · silencing · hushing up · omitting
recountingsummarizing
Condensing to main points
abbreviating · condensing · compressing · abridging · truncating
recountingpredicting
Stating future outcomes
forecasting · prophesying · foretelling · projecting · anticipating
count, account, counter, recount, accountant, accounting, accounted, recounted, recounts