REMEMBERING
Dictionary entry overview: What does remembering mean?
• REMEMBERING (noun)
The noun REMEMBERING has 1 sense:
1. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
Familiarity information: REMEMBERING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REMEMBERING (noun)
Meaning:
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
remembering; memory
Context examples:
he can do it from memory / he enjoyed remembering his father
Hypernyms ("remembering" is a kind of...):
basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remembering"):
immediate memory; short-term memory; STM (what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it)
working memory (memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking)
long-term memory; LTM (your general store of remembered information)
retrieval (the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory)
recall; recollection; reminiscence (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))
identification; recognition (the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering)
association; connection; connexion (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination)
retrospection (memory for experiences that are past)
