# flashback
## English
### Etymology

From flash +‎ back.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflæʃ.bæk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: flash‧back

### Noun

flashback (plural flashbacks)
* (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
    Synonym: analepsis
* (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
    Coordinate term: reminiscence
* A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
** 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture):Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation? / The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.
* The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
* (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
** 2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference, page 497:As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table flashbacks.
** 2004, Gavin J. T. Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples, page xxv:[…] less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version flashbacks, and parallel queries.

#### Derived terms

* (flame): flashback arrestor
* antiflashback
* Vietnam flashback

#### Descendants

* → German: Flashback
* → Spanish: flashback
* → Norwegian: flashback
* → Portuguese: flashback

#### Translations
### Verb

flashback (third-person singular simple present flashbacks, present participle flashbacking, simple past and past participle flashbacked)
* (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

#### Synonyms

* flash back

### See also

* flashforward

### Further reading

* flashback (narrative) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* flashback (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* backflash, half-backs, halfbacks

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English flashback.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: flash‧back

### Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks, diminutive flashbackje n)
* flashback

#### Synonyms

* terugblik

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* flash-back

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɛʃˌbɛk/, /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/
* Rhymes: -ɛk
* Hyphenation: flàsh‧back

### Noun

flashback m (usually invariable, plural (dated) flashbacks)
* flashback

### Further reading

* flashback in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌflɛ.ʃiˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌflɛ.ʃiˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/, /ˌflɛ.ʃiˈbɛ.ki/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌflaʃˈbɛk/ [ˌflaʃˈβɛk]

### Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks)
* (narratology) flashback (earlier event inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English flashback.

### Noun

flashback n (plural flashbackuri)
* flashback

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflaʃbak/ [ˈflaʃ.β̞ak]
* Rhymes: -aʃbak

### Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks)
* flashback

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “flashback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10