remembering vs recognition

recognition vs remembering

remembering and recognition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
remembering	Yes	No	No	No
recognition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recognition is a hyponym of remembering; that is, recognition is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than remembering:

remembering: the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
recognition: the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

Other hyponyms of remembering include immediate memory, short-term memory, STM, working memory, long-term memory, LTM, retrieval, recall, recollection, reminiscence, identification, association, connection, connexion, retrospection, musical memory.

remembering (noun)	recognition (noun)
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered	designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
	the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
	an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid
	coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
	approval
	the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
	(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape
	the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

Difference between remembering and recognition

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