Stories about the phenomena of personal or public life, seen and passed through the prism of perception of the author, who set them out on paper, are called memories. Often they are also associated with diaries, although there is no element of chronology. Remembrance is an event or part of the past that does not affect reality and is stored only “for oneself”. You can counter them with memoirs, which, in essence, are the same, only written to represent the public. Consider the interpretation, features of use and declension of the word in more detail.
“Recollection”: meaning of the word
Linguists identify up to two main meanings. In general vocabulary, you can often see its use in the plural. “Recollection”, the meaning of which is reduced to archives of memory and elements of literary activity, is also associated with the past, an analysis of past events and their influence on the present (in psychology). Consider two main interpretations.
In the dictionary D.N. Ushakova:
1. The mental reproduction of what is preserved in memory.
Examples:
Memories of childhood affect all subsequent life and human behavior.
Pleasant memories give strength to new achievements.
2. In the plural, the word denotes a literary work, which describes the events whose eyewitness was the author. Such a presentation is also called memoirs or notes.
Examples:
The military story is based on the memoirs of a direct participant in the hostilities.
The film “Memoirs of the Future” was shot based on the book “Covenants of Youth” by Vera Brittain.
3. In colloquial speech you can hear a joking expression: “One memory remains”, when the speaker implies that nothing else has been preserved, everything disappeared without a trace.
Examples:
From his high spirits there was only one memory.
From the former beauty of the girl, only memories remained.
Morphological and syntactic features
The word "remembrance" is a noun of the middle gender, inanimate, 2nd declension. Prefix: rep; suffixes: -a-ni; root: -min- ending: e. According to the classification of A. A. Zaliznyak, it belongs to the type of declination 7a.
Singular:
| Them. | memory |
| R. | memories |
| D. | recall |
| IN. | memory |
| Tv | recollection |
| Etc. | recollections |
Plural:
| Them. | memories |
| R. | recollection |
| D. | recollections |
| IN. | memories |
| Tv | memories |
| Etc. | recollections |
Synonyms
Words similar in meaning to which “memory” can be replaced in various contexts are: recall, memory, retrospection, memo, memoir, fiction, literature, memory, book. Synonyms enable the widespread use of a word / concept in colloquial and written speech. They also more fully reveal the subtleties of its meaning.
Phraseologisms and stable phrases
As already mentioned above, colloquial expressions include "only memory left". It means the absence of any quality or object in the present.
Recollection may be:
- scary / painful / difficult / painful;
- cheerful / pleasant / sweet / happy / warm / wonderful;
- old / last / forgotten / first / new / fresh.
The memory can: flash / pop up / arise / appear / tease / pierce / slip away.
Him: call / prompt / return / pursue / awaken / recall / break off.
Examples:
It was worth seeing children's photos, and memories surged across her.
Fresh memories erased past events.
Remembrance is not only an element of memory, but also a kind of literary work. The word is most often used in general vocabulary. Then come the fields of medicine, psychology and psychoanalysis.