reminiscence

rem·i·nis·cence  (rm-nsns)

n.

1. The act or process of recollecting past experiences or events.

2. An experience or event recollected: "Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety" (Charlotte Brontë).

3. A narration of past experiences. Often used in the plural.

4. An event that brings to mind a similar, former event.

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reminiscence [ˌrɛmɪˈnɪsəns]

n

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. (Philosophy) (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. (Psychology) 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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	reminiscence - a mental impression retained and recalled from the past memory - something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"
	2.	reminiscence - the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" recollection, recall remembering, memory - the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" mind - recall or remembrance; "it came to mind" reconstructive memory, reconstruction - recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall reproductive memory, reproduction - recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall regurgitation - recall after rote memorization; "he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation"

Translations

reminiscence [ˌremɪˈnɪsəns] N (= act) → reminiscencia f; (= individual recollection) → recuerdo m

reminiscence

n (= action) → Zurückgehen nt → (of zu); (= thought) → Reminiszenz f, → Erinnerung f (→ of an +acc)

reminiscence [ˌrɛmɪˈnɪs/əns] n (usu pl) → reminiscenza