Associations to the word «Reminiscence»

Wiktionary

REMINISCENCE, noun. An act of remembering long-past experiences, often fondly.
REMINISCENCE, noun. A mental image thus remembered.

Dictionary definition

REMINISCENCE, noun. A mental impression retained and recalled from the past.
REMINISCENCE, noun. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats