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reminiscence|rɛmɪˈnɪsəns|
Also 6 -cens, 7 -cience.
[a. F. réminiscence (14th c.), or ad. late L. reminiscentia (Tert.), f. reminiscī to remember, f, re- re- + *men- (see mind).]
1. The act, process, or fact, of remembering or recollecting; sometimes spec. the act of recovering knowledge by mental effort (cf. recollection).
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. (Arb.) 312 By long and studious obseruation rather a repetition or reminiscens naturall. 1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman ii. 84 There are those who teach on Plato's grounds, that Inclination comes from a certain Reminiscence. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. iii. (1701) 78/1 Thus is all her Learning only reminiscence, a recovery of her first knowledge. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 361 The other part of memory, called Reminiscence: which is the Retreiving of a thing, at present forgot, or but confusely remembred. 1744Berkeley Siris §315 The Peripatetics themselves distinguish between reminiscence and mere memory. 1791Cowper Four Ages 23 Knows he his origin? can he ascend By reminiscence to his earliest date? 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. 291 The ingenious doctrine of the soul's reminiscence of a former apprehension of truth. 1879Calderwood Mind & Br. 266 Embryology presents us with a modification of Plato's doctrine of reminiscence.
2. (Chiefly pl.)
a. A recollection or remembrance, as a mental fact.
1813Shelley Q. Mab vii. 52 Vague dreams have rolled, And varied reminiscences have waked. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. i. (1852) 5 The passive indolence which..easily mistakes its mere reminiscences for the result of inquiry. 1887Lowell Democr. 94 Memory which at my time of life is gradually becoming one of her own reminiscences.
b. A recollection or remembrance of some past fact or experience related to others; freq. (in pl.), the collective memories or experiences of a person put into literary form.
1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. I. 96 Till his feelings were ascertained..his friends were not wanting in these reminiscences. 1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 248 As he listened to these reminiscences of the sailors. 1868Farrar Seekers Introd. 3 Contemporary reminiscences of that day of desperate disaster.
3. An expression, feature, fact, etc., which recalls something else.
1860Pusey Min. Proph. 153 Other reminiscences of the words of Amos are only a part of the harmony of Scripture. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. vi. 229 There is a singular and striking reminiscence of vertebræ in the three arches of the bony skull. 1876Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. xxvi. 396 [The Saturnalia] of which the vivid reminiscence still exists in the modern Carnival.
4. Psychol. An improvement in the memory or performance of something partially learned, occurring after the learning has ceased.
1913P. B. Ballard in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Monograph Suppl. I. ii. 17 As obliviscence is a gradual process of deterioration in the capacity to revive past experiences, so is reminiscence a gradual process of improvement in that capacity. Ibid. 31 In the case of very young children the interval which secures maximal reminiscence seems to be three days. 1935Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XLVII. 89 The results of the two experiments..indicate that reminiscence..occurs independently of casual revival or intentional review. 1951S. S. Stevens Handbk. Exper. Psychol. xvii. 653/1 Although most of the work on reminiscence had used verbal material, the appearance of reminiscence is not restricted to verbal learning. 1978E. Gulian et al. in M. M. Gruneberg et al. Practical Aspects Memory ii. 596 Training sessions following closely together produce no marked improvement in performance and..clear-cut progress show-ups only after a training gap. This finding is akin to the phenomenon of reminiscence, which is described in a wide range of learning studies.
Hence remiˈniscence v., to ‘reminisce’; remiˈniscenceful a.; remiˈniscencer.
1888Frith Autobiog. III. iii. 30 The..reminiscencer who is fond of talking of matters that can be of no interest to anyone but himself. 1889Edin. Rev. Jan. 64 The reflective reminiscenceful character common to all the writings of the Apocrypha. 1890S. J. Duncan Social Depart. 327 Orthodocia was delightful when she reminiscenced. |