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Rehearsal vs Recollection - What's the difference?

rehearsal | recollection |

As nouns the difference between rehearsal and recollection

is that rehearsal is the practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done while recollection is the act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.

rehearsal

Noun

(en noun)
  • the practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done
  • recollection

    English

    Etymology 1

    Via (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
  • The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance
  • ''Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
  • That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
  • ''One of his earliest recollections ." - (Thomas Babington Macaulay).
  • (archaic) (also spelled re-collection) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
  • ''From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection .
    Synonyms
    * reminiscence * remembrance * memory.
    Derived terms
    * recollective

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • Process of collecting again.
  • (Webster 1913)