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View definitions for recollective

recollective

adjective as in reminiscent

adjective as in retrospective

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Even if the memory is not your own, you taste its recollective pull.

When it is injured, remembrance is impaired; and, on the other hand, an accident has been known to improve the recollective faculties.

“You may need a prompt to start the recollective search,” he said.

Throughout, the lyrics are oddly imprecise – every sentence begins with "I must have … " or "I'm pretty sure … " – and it's this vague recollective tone that gives her account a tinge of unreality, even fiction.

Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain! 

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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