'flashback' definitions:
Definition of 'flashback'
(from WordNet)
noun
A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story [ant: flash- forward]
noun
An unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
Definition of 'flashback'
From: GCIDE
- flashback \flashback\ n.
- 1. a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene; also, the scene thus introduced. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. An unusually vivid recollection of a prior experience, often one that is traumatic, such as scenes from combat or a criminal assault, or induced by hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD; when accompanied by hallucinations it is called flashback hallucinosis. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'flashback'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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