reminiscence

See also: réminiscence

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛns

Noun

reminiscence (countable and uncountable, plural reminiscences)

1. An act of remembering long-past experiences, often fondly.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     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.

Synonyms

• recall
• recollection

Coordinate terms

• flashback - memory of trauma

Related terms

• reminiscent
• reminiscential

Translations

act of remembering

• Finnish: muistelu (fi)
• German: Erinnern n
• Greek: ανάμνηση (el) f (anámnisi)
• Maori: manaka, mānakanaka, pūmaharatanga, hokinga mahara
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• Romanian: reamintire (ro) f
• Russian: воспомина́ние (ru) n (vospominánije), (literary) реминисце́нция (ru) f (reminiscéncija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachadh m

mental image

• Dutch: herinnering (nl)
• Finnish: muistikuva, muistuma, muisto (fi)
• German: Erinnerung an f, Erinnerungen (de) pl or f, Rückerinnerung f, Reminiszenz (de) f
• Greek: ανάμνηση (el) f (anámnisi)
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• Maori: pūmaharatanga
• Romanian: reminiscență (ro) f, amintire (ro) f
• Russian: воспомина́ние (ru) n (vospominánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachadh m

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• French: ^{(please verify)} réminiscence (fr) m
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  Sorani:

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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} recordatio f, ^{(please verify)} memoria f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} reminiscencia

See also

• nostalgia

Further reading

• “reminiscence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “reminiscence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.