Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story;
2.
an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
flashback \flashback\ n.
1. a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to
an earlier event or scene; also, the scene thus
introduced.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. An unusually vivid recollection of a prior experience,
often one that is traumatic, such as scenes from combat or
a criminal assault, or induced by hallucinogenic drugs
such as LSD; when accompanied by hallucinations it is
called flashback hallucinosis.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flashback
n 1: a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to
an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal
chronological development of the story [ant: flash-
forward]
2: an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience
(especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic
drug taken much earlier)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "flashback":
commitment to memory, exercise of memory, hindsight,
learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing,
recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration,
reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect,
retrospection, review, rote, rote memory, study