reminiscence

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs.əns/

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• Rhymes: -ɛns

reminiscence (countable and uncountable, plural reminiscences)

1. An act of remembering long-past experiences, especially positive or pleasant ones, often fondly.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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.

• recall
• recollection

• flashback - memory of trauma

• reminiscent
• reminiscential

• nostalgia

• “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.