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reminiscence
[ rem-uh-nis-uhns ]
noun
- the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
Synonyms: recollection
- a mental impression retained and revived.
Synonyms: memory
- Often reminiscences. a recollection narrated or told:
reminiscences of an American soldier.
- something that recalls or suggests something else.
Synonyms: reminder
- (in Platonic philosophy) anamnesis ( def 2 ).
reminiscence
/ ˌrɛmɪˈnɪsəns /
noun
- the act of recalling or narrating past experiences
- often plural some past experience, event, etc, that is recalled or narrated; anecdote
- an event, phenomenon, or experience that reminds one of something else
- (in the philosophy of Plato) the doctrine that perception and recognition of particulars is possible because the mind has seen the universal forms of all things in a previous disembodied existence
- psychol the ability to perform a task better when tested some time after the task has been learnt than when tested immediately after learning it
Word History and Origins
Origin of reminiscence1
Example Sentences
A scene about Townsend will slip into a reminiscence about his childhood, or a forecasting of his death.
Inevitably, poor Kate is getting binders full of advice and motherly reminiscence.
The photo-sharing app that was recently sold to Facebook for a billion dollars (yes, with a “b”) also peddles in reminiscence.
When a reminiscence got going in the Back Trace, nights, it worked like a freestyle morphine jazz.
Elimination is your watchword, whether chucking 20th century memorabilia or relationships hinged on reminiscence.
A child's preference for the mother's singing is, perhaps, a half reminiscence of the soft-low tones of the lullaby.
She had taken off her glove now, and her palm left on his a reminiscence of Peau d'Espagne.
Here is one among many; it is a reminiscence of my visit in a country seat not far from Edinburgh.
He was engaged in telling some bit of pioneer reminiscence—something broadly pleasant.
A strange smile shot into Crozier's face, and the dark passion of reminiscence fled from his eyes.
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