reminiscence
- noun
- /ˌrɛmɪˈnɪsəns/
- These haven't been those sort of dreadfully polite, gentle reminiscences that these have been, I think, really fairly loaded.
- reminiscence therapy
- personal reminiscences
- childhood reminiscences
OK, so Next up we have Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefev.
- OK, so Next up we have Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefev.
- To use nostalgia as a lost, as a reminiscence of a lost past is silly.
- These haven't been those sort of dreadfully polite, gentle reminiscences that these have been, I think, really fairly loaded.
Examples
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John King published his reminiscences of the Civil War era almost four decades after the conflict.
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During our family reunion, we shared many joyful reminiscences of our childhood adventures.
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That is like the reminiscence of being away.
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What's it about, your reminiscence?
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More than anything else, he thought, reminiscence held all possibility of romance.
Fiction book (1999) -
Many of them provide special insights through reminiscence, but they often lack analysis and documentation.
Academic text (1991) -
So that is my little reminiscence about Christmas time among the Lemrese.
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No doubt you both have pleasant reminiscences of your school days to talk together.
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The next bit of reminiscence is about Swidler's involvement with Catholic Church reform.
Academic text (2015) -
Newspaper articles, reminiscences, and interviews report case after case of people in the Dust Bowl expressing the same forebodings.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
A thing you remember from the past
A memory of something from the past or the act of remembering it
The act of thinking about past events to understand them
Ability to remember things you learned
An event from a person's life that they can remember
Experiencing a past event or feeling again in your mind
Thinking about events or experiences from the past
A time when someone thinks about past events
The ability to remember events from the past
An act that honors people or events from the past
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Etymology
Reminiscence comes from Latin parts re- 'again' and mem- 'to remember', the same root you see in memory and remember. So a reminiscence is simply a memory or the act of remembering something from the past.