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   Rec·ol·lec·tion

   /ˌrekəˈlekSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. the action or faculty of remembering something: "to the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him"
   • ▪ a thing recollected; a memory: "a biography based on his wife's recollections"
   • ▪ (in Platonic thought) anamnesis.

   Word Origin late 16th century (denoting the action of gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n-), from the verb recolligere ‘gather again’ (see recollect1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. recollective adjective

   Scrabble Points: 16

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