remembering

re·mem·ber  (r-mmbr)

v. re·mem·bered, re·mem·ber·ing, re·mem·bers

v.tr.

1.

a. To recall to the mind with effort; think of again: I finally remembered the address.

b. To recall or become aware of suddenly or spontaneously: Then I remembered that today is your birthday.

2. To retain in the memory: Remember your appointment.

3. To keep (someone) in mind as worthy of consideration or recognition.

4. To reward with a gift or tip.

5. To give greetings from: Remember me to your family.

6. Engineering To return to (an original shape or form) after being deformed or altered.

7. Electronics To carry out (a programmed or preset activity).

8. Archaic To remind.

v.intr.

To have or use the power of memory.

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[Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer, from Latin rememorr, to remember again : re-, re- + memor, mindful; see (s)mer-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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re·member·a·bili·ty n.

re·member·a·ble adj.

re·member·er n.

Synonyms: remember, recall, recollect
These verbs mean to bring an image or a thought back to the mind: can't remember his name; recalling her kindness; recollected the events leading to the accident.

Antonym: forget

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

remembering - the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" memory basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge 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; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor" recollection, reminiscence, recall - the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" recognition, identification - the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" connexion, association, connection - the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" retrospection - memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"