Reminiscence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of recollecting past experiences or events.
  • n. An experience or event recollected: "Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety” ( Charlotte Brontë).
  • n. A narration of past experiences. Often used in the plural.
  • n. An event that brings to mind a similar, former event.
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  • n. An act of remembering long-past experiences, often fondly.
  • n. A mental image thus remembered.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.
  • n. That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or power of recollecting; recollection; the voluntary exertion of the reproductive faculty of the understanding; the recalling of the past to mind.
  • n. That which is recollected or recalled to mind; a relation of what is recollected; a narration of past incidents, events, and characteristics within one's personal knowledge; as, the reminiscences of a quinquagenarian.
  • n. In music, a composition which is not intended to be original in its fundamental idea, but only in its manner of treatment.
  • n. In biology, the retention by a modern organism, during its development, of traces of the effect of past ancestral history.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
  • n. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    memory   
    Cross Reference
    nostalgia   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    recollection    remembrance    memory   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    recollection    anecdote    allusion    sketch    memoir   
     
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