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発音

• IPA: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/
• 韻: -ɛkʃən

名詞

recollection (usually uncountable, plural recollections)

1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.

   Synonyms: reminiscence, remembrance

2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.

   Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.

3. That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.

   One of his earliest recollections.

   - Thomas Babington Macaulay

   • 1959 April, L. H. Leedham, “A Veteran of the M.S.L.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:

     Now, at almost 90, he is hale and hearty, full of recollections, and retains a keen interest in life—a truly remarkable character and a great gentleman of the footplate.

4. (archaic or Catholicism) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

   From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.

   In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.

5. (Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.

別の表記

• (collecting or concentrating the mind): re-collection

同意語

• reminiscence
• remembrance
• memory

派生語

関連する語

• recollect
• recollected

語源 2

From re- +‎ collection.

発音

• IPA: /ɹiˌkəˈlɛkʃən/

名詞

recollection (countable and uncountable, plural recollections)

1. Process of collecting again.

別の表記

• re-collection

参照

• “recollection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.