reminiscence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rem=i=nis=cence

CIDE DICTIONARY

reminiscence, n. [F. réminiscence, L. reminiscentia.].

•  The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.  [1913 Webster]

  "The other part of memory, called reminiscence, which is the retrieving of a thing at present forgot, or but confusedly remembered."  [1913 Webster]

  "I forgive your want of reminiscence, since it is long since I saw you."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection; as, pleasing or painful reminiscences.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Remembrance; recollection. See Memory.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reminiscence, n.
1 the act of remembering things past; the recovery of knowledge by mental effort.
2 a a past fact or experience that is remembered. b the process of narrating this.
3 (in pl.) a collection in literary form of incidents and experiences that a person remembers.
4 Philos. (esp. in Platonism) the theory of the recovery of things known to the soul in previous existences.
5 a characteristic of one thing reminding or suggestive of another.

Derivative

reminiscential adj.

Etymology

LL reminiscentia f. L reminisci remember

THESAURUS

reminiscence

anamnesis, anecdotes, commitment to memory, exercise of memory, flashback, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memoirs, memories, memorization, memorizing, memory, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reexperiencing, reflection, reflections, reliving, remembering, remembrance, retrospect, retrospection, review, revival, rote, rote memory, study, youth

ROGET THESAURUS

reminiscence

Memory

N memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, tenacity, veteris vestigia flammae, tablets of the memory, readiness, reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration, recurrence, flashback, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought, post script, PS, suggestion, prompting, hint, reminder, remembrancer, flapper, memorial, commemoration, note, memo, memorandum, things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia, art of memory, artificial memory, memoria technica, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, prompt-book, crib sheet, cheat sheet, retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green memory, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection, perfect memory, total recall, celebrity, fame, renown, reputation, remembering, remembered, mindful, reminiscential, retained in the memory, pent up in one's memory, fresh, green, green in remembrance, unforgotten, present to the mind, within one's memory, indelible, uppermost in one's thoughts, memorable, by heart, by rote, without book, memoriter, in memory of, in memoriam, memoria in aeterna, suggestive, manet alta mente repostum, forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, absens haeres non erit, beatae memoriae, briefly thyself remember, mendacem memorem esse oportet, memory the warder of the brain, parsque est meminisse doloris, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, vox audita peril littera scripta manet, out of sight, out of mind.