reminiscence
11 synonyms and 1 antonym for reminiscence, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A spoken or written account of something a person remembers from their own past.
Synonyms
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A spoken or written account of something a person remembers from their own past.
“Her memoir is full of warm reminiscences of a childhood spent by the sea.”
2. noun
The act of thinking or talking about past experiences, usually with pleasure.
“The evening dissolved into reminiscence about old colleagues.”
Opposites
3. noun
A feature of something that faintly recalls something else.
“There is a reminiscence of early Bowie in the album's opening track.”
How to use reminiscence
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Slightly literary; common in memoirs and obituaries.
Etymology
From Latin reminisci "to remember, call to mind", from re- "again" and a root related to mens "mind".
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