remembering

Thân thiện

He is remembering his father's stories by the fireplace.

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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
   • he can do it from memory
   • he enjoyed remembering his father

Từ đồng nghĩa

• memory