word recall
Fetching stored terms
Word recall is the ability to retrieve words from memory when needed.
It describes both the mental process and the capacity itself: Her word recall has declined since the stroke.
The term appears often in discussions of aging, language disorders, and memory research.
Poor word recall produces tip-of-the-tongue moments—knowing a word exists but being unable to summon it.
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- short term memoryBrief information storage
- long term memoryDurable information storage in mind
- retrievalAct of getting back
- rememberRetain in mind
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memory success
word recallforgetting
Failing to retain memories
memory lapse · blocking · amnesia · anomia
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