reminisc- +

(Greek > Latin: to recollect, to remember; act of remembering; to recall to memory; to remind of)


reminisce
1. To talk or to write about events remembered from the past.
2. To recollect and to tell of past experiences or events.
reminisced
Past experiences remembered, talked, or written about; usually, memories of pleasure.
reminiscence (s), reminiscences (pl)
1. The recollection of past experiences or events in speech or writing, or the act of recalling the past.
2. An experience or event remembered from the past.
3. Something which recalls or suggests something similar; such as, an event that brings to mind a similar or former event.
4. The Platonic doctrine that anything we encounter is an imperfect recollection of an idea that our souls have encountered in a previous disembodied existence.
5. The ability to perform a task or to remember information better some time after it has been learned than was possible immediately after it was learned.
reminiscent
1. Tending to recall or to suggest something in the past; such as, an evening reminiscent of happier times.
2. Awakening memories of something similar.
reminiscential
A reference to reminiscence, or to remembrance.
reminiscentially
A description of an act or a process of recollecting past experiences or events.
reminiscently
In a reminiscent manner: "He spoke reminiscently of his weeks driving in several countries in Africa."
reminiscer
Someone who recollects, or remembers, past events and situations.
reminisces
When someone recollects and tells of past experiences or events.
reminiscing
Remembering events and experiences from the past; sometimes compiled in a book or other written format.

Related units about "memory, remembering": memor-; mne-.


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