flashback
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- transition hypernym
Related & opposite
- flash-forward antonym
- cut back derivation
- literature domain topic
Sense 2 noun
an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
Types & categories
- recurrence hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | flash-forward |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cut back |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | literature |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | transition |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | recurrence |