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Association 76% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Connection 76% connected

The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

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Connexion 76% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Identification 76% connected

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Recognition 76% connected

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

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Recollection 76% connected

The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminis…

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Reminiscence 76% connected

The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.

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Retrieval 76% connected

The act retrieving.

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Retrospection 76% connected

The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

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working memory 76% connected

The small amount of information the mind can actively use at one time.

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Derivationally related 2

Remember 74% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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Remember 74% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Memory 92% connected

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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