remembering
Definition
Noun: The mental faculty or process of recalling or retaining knowledge, information, or past experiences. It refers to the act of bringing a previous experience or fact back into one's conscious mind.
Usage
"Remembering" is used to describe the active process of memory retrieval. It is often followed by a noun, pronoun, or gerund phrase indicating what is being recalled. - Remembering is a complex cognitive function. - Her remembering of the event was surprisingly detailed. - The book is about remembering his childhood.
Examples
- Noun as subject:
- Remembering can be triggered by a familiar smell or sound.
- Accurate remembering is crucial for eyewitness testimony.
- Noun as object:
- The therapy focused on the remembering of traumatic events.
- I have a clear remembering of our first meeting.
- With a possessive:
- His remembering of the instructions was flawless.
- Thank you for your remembering of my birthday.
Advanced Usage
- "In/within living remembering": Used to indicate something that has happened within the time that people currently alive can remember. (Note: This is a less common variant of the standard idiom "in/within living memory").
- The flood was the worst in living remembering for the townspeople.
Variants and Related Words
- Remember (verb): To recall information or a past event to one's mind.
- Remembrance (noun): The action of remembering; a memory or souvenir.
- Memorial (noun): Something, especially a structure, established to remind people of a person or event.
- Memory (noun): The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information; a specific recollection.
Synonyms
- Recollection: The action or faculty of remembering something.
- Recall: The act of bringing a fact, event, or situation back into one's mind.
- Reminiscence: The enjoyable recollection of past events.
Antonyms
- Forgetting: The failure to remember information or an event.
- Oblivion: The state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening; the state of being forgotten.
Related Phrases
- To the best of my remembering: Used to qualify a statement based on one's memory, indicating it may not be perfectly accurate. (A variant of "to the best of my recollection").
- To the best of my remembering, the meeting was on a Tuesday.
Noun
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the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
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he can do it from memory
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he enjoyed remembering his father
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