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Reliving vs Remember - What's the difference?

reliving | remember |

As verbs the difference between reliving and remember

is that reliving is while remember is to recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.

As a noun reliving

is the act by which something is relived.

reliving

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is relived.
  • * 1996 , Susan Contratto, ?M. Janice Gutfreund, A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate (page 38)
  • In effect, the recovery of traumatic memories involves the conscious awareness and explicit processing of relivings of the somatosensory and affective experiences during the trauma, relivings that are largely context-free and meaningless.

    Anagrams

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    remember

    English

    Alternative forms

    * remembre (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation
  • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To memorize; to put something into memory.
  • To not forget (to do something required)
  • To convey greetings from.
  • (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
  • * Chapman
  • My friends remembered me of home.
  • * , Secret Parting, lines 5-7
  • ''But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
    ''Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
    ''Her set gaze gathered
  • To engage in the process of recalling memories.
  • Usage notes

    * In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * See

    Synonyms

    * recall * reminisce

    Derived terms

    * rememberer * remembrance

    See also

    * recollect * recollection * remind