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Recollect vs Remembering - What's the difference?

recollect | remembering |

As verbs the difference between recollect and remembering

is that recollect is to recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events while remembering is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun remembering is

the act by which something is remembered.

recollect

English

Etymology 1

From

Verb

(en verb)
  • To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
    • I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
  • To compose oneself.
  • * Dryden
    • The Tyrian queen Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
  • * 1847 , Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
    • The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
    English heteronyms

    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.