English noun: flashback | |||
1. | flashback (communication) a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story | ||
Broader (hypernym) | transition | ||
Domain category | literature | ||
Antonyms | flash-forward | ||
2. | flashback (event) an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | recurrence, return | ||