reminiscence

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

• Rhymes: -ɛns

reminiscence (countable and uncountable, plural reminiscences)

1. An act of remembering long-past experiences, often fondly.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reminiscence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.