reminiscence









reminiscence


noun

  1. the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
  2. a mental impression retained and revived.
  3. Often reminiscences. a recollection narrated or told: reminiscences of an American soldier.
  4. something that recalls or suggests something else.
  5. (in Platonic philosophy) anamnesis(def 2).

noun

  1. the act of recalling or narrating past experiences
  2. (often plural) some past experience, event, etc, that is recalled or narrated; anecdote
  3. an event, phenomenon, or experience that reminds one of something else
  4. (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
  5. 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
n.

1580s, “act of remembering,” from Middle French reminiscence (14c.) and directly from Late Latin reminiscentia “remembrance, recollection” (a loan-translation of Greek anamnesis), from Latin reminiscentem (nominative reminiscens), present participle of reminisci “remember, recall to mind,” from re- “again” (see re-) + minisci “to remember,” from root of mens “mind,” from PIE root *men- “mind, understanding, reason” (see mind (n.)). Meaning “a recollection of something past” is attested from 1811.

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