REMINISCENCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does reminiscence mean?
• REMINISCENCE (noun)
The noun REMINISCENCE has 2 senses:
1. a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
2. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
Familiarity information: REMINISCENCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REMINISCENCE (noun)
Meaning:
A mental impression retained and recalled from the past
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reminiscence" is a kind of...):
memory (something that is remembered)
Meaning:
The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
recollection; reminiscence; recall
Context example:
he has total recall of the episode
Hypernyms ("reminiscence" is a kind of...):
memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reminiscence"):
mind (recall or remembrance)
reconstruction; reconstructive memory (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall)
reproduction; reproductive memory (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall)
regurgitation (recall after rote memorization)
