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reminiscence

noun
/ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs.əns/

Etymology

From Late Latin reminīscentiae (“remembrances”), from Latin reminīscēns, present active participle of reminīscor (“remember”); see reminiscent.

  1. derived from reminīscēns
  2. borrowed from reminīscentiae

Definitions

  1. An act of remembering long-past experiences, especially positive or pleasant ones, often…

    An act of remembering long-past experiences, especially positive or pleasant ones, often fondly.

    • Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.

  2. A mental image thus remembered.

    • Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones).

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Derived

pseudoreminiscence, reminiscenceful, reminiscencer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reminiscence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA