flashback
1. [ noun ] (fine art,film,writing) a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Related terms: transition literature
2. [ noun ] an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
Related terms: recurrence
Similar spelling:   flash_back
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