REMEMBERING

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

memory; remembering

Context example:

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)

Derivation:

remember (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)

remember (recapture the past; indulge in memories)

remember (exercise, or have the power of, memory)

 Context examples 

There were lines upon his forehead, but Time seemed to have touched him gently, remembering how kind he was to others.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"A poor old tramp explains his poor old ulcers," he muttered, remembering his Henly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Remembering what it was—what countless systems there swept space like a soft trace of light—I felt the might and strength of God.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In other words, remembering more specific positive events reduced their vulnerability to depression over the course of one year.

(Recalling happy memories during adolescence can reduce risk of depression, University of Cambridge)

“I think I have heard the business mentioned, sir,” I said, remembering what I vaguely knew of his and his sister's resources.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He declared himself to be totally unsuspicious of her sister's attachment; and she could not help remembering what Charlotte's opinion had always been.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her daughters are both exceedingly well married, and therefore I cannot perceive the necessity of her remembering them farther.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A question about whether an individual has or had trouble remembering things.

(Have Trouble Remembering Things, NCI Thesaurus)

The stable-boy threw a light upon the matter by remembering that a farmer of that name lived some miles off, in the direction of East Ruston.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When all was arranged snugly, she said: “Now, sir, to bed. And you shall sleep until luncheon. Till dinner-time,” she corrected, remembering the arrangement on the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)