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Meaning of FLASHBACK

Pronunciation:  'flash`bak

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
  2. [n]  an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
 
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 Antonyms: flash-forward
 
 See Also: recurrence, return, transition

 

 

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Flashback
A young American woman awakens on the side of the road with no memory of who she is, and the subsequent search for her identity reveals that she is pursued by powerful enemies who are willing to kill innocent people to get to her.

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 Related Terms: commitment to memory, exercise of memory, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, rote, rote memory, study
 

 

 

 

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