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Remembrance vs Reflection - What's the difference?

remembrance | reflection |

As nouns the difference between remembrance and reflection

is that remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection while reflection is the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.

remembrance

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* remembraunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
  • * Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. .
  • * Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. .
  • The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
  • * This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. .
  • Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
  • That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
  • * And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. .
  • * Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
  • (obsolete) Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.
  • Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
  • * Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance . .
  • Synonyms

    * recollection; reminiscence. See memory.

    reflection

    English

    Alternative forms

    * reflexion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
  • The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
  • Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
  • (senseid) Careful thought or consideration.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}
  • An implied criticism.
  • (label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
  • Derived terms

    * reflectional * reflectionless * self-reflection

    See also

    * refraction * diffraction