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Flashback vs Remembering - What's the difference?

flashback | remembering |

As nouns the difference between flashback and remembering

is that flashback is a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative while remembering is the act by which something is remembered.

As a verb remembering is

present participle of lang=en.

flashback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative
  • (psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs
  • a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug
  • the condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system

    • Synonyms

    * (dramatic device) analepsis

    Coordinate terms

    * (act of remembering) reminiscence

    Derived terms

    * (flame) flashback arrestor

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    See also

    * flashforward

    Anagrams

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    remembering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is remembered.
  • * (Marita Sturken)
    • The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings , to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.