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Forgetting vs Remembering - What's the difference?

forgetting | remembering |

As verbs the difference between forgetting and remembering

is that forgetting is present participle of lang=en while remembering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between forgetting and remembering

is that forgetting is the mental act by which something is forgotten while remembering is the act by which something is remembered.

forgetting

English

(wikipedia forgetting)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mental act by which something is forgotten.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Jelliffe how it was possible for an illness which had been described unmistakably innumerable times to be 'forgotten' anew by each generation. Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are mysterious, for they give us an unwarranted sense of security.

    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.