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Recalling vs Remembering - What's the difference?

recalling | remembering |

As verbs the difference between recalling and remembering

is that recalling is while remembering is .

As nouns the difference between recalling and remembering

is that recalling is the act by which something is recalled while remembering is the act by which something is remembered.

recalling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is recalled.
  • * (Mark Twain), The Mysterious Stranger
    • I was full of sorrow, and also of remorse, which is the way with us in the first days of a bereavement, and at such times we wish to be alone with our trouble and our bitter recallings of failings of loyalty or love toward the comrade who is gone.

    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.