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Recognizing vs Recalling - What's the difference?

recognizing | recalling |

As verbs the difference between recognizing and recalling

is that recognizing is present participle of lang=en while recalling is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun recalling is

the act by which something is recalled.

recognizing

English

Alternative forms

*recognising (UK )

Verb

(head)
  • (US)

    • 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.