evocation means the act of calling out or forth, or evoking. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 72 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EVOCATION — [Noun] The act of calling something forth, especially a feeling, memory, or image. From Middle French évocation, from Latin ēvocātiōnem (nominative ēvocātiō), meaning "a calling forth," from ēvocāre ("to call out, summon"), from ē- ("out") + vocāre ("to call"). Unlike "invocation" (a formal appeal to an external power) or "connotation" (a word's passive associative halo), evocation is the active, secular art of drawing the past into the present. It is the scent of rain on hot concrete pulling a forgotten summer afternoon into the now; the touch of a coarse woolen blanket that summons the precise warmth of a grandmother's lap; the distant, tinny melody from an open window that calls forth not just a song, but the ache of a particular youthful longing. It is the quiet craft of making absence palpable.
noun
- The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.“Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled.”