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Definitions: Reminiscence |
ReminiscenceNoun1. A mental impression retained and recalled from the past. 2. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reminiscence" was first used: 1589. (references) |
Synonyms: ReminiscenceSynonyms: recall (n), recollection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence, flashback; retrospect, retrospection. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reminiscence |
| English words defined with "reminiscence": Reminiscency, Reminiscential. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Reminiscence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Czech (reminiscence). |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The inundation of 1802 is a present reminiscence with Parisians of eighty. |
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| "Reminiscence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reminiscence" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "reminiscence": of-surprisingly-reminiscence. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reminiscence | 29 |
reminiscence therapy | 8 |
reminiscence of a stock operator | 5 |
magazine reminiscence | 2 |
american standard reminiscence | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "reminiscence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | reminishencë, kujtim i turbullt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كل ما يذكر المرء بشىء, تذكر (mind, recall, recollect, recollection, remember), ذكريات, ذكرى ماضية, ذكرى (memorial, memory, mind, recollection, remembrance, reminiscent, souvenir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спомен (keepsake, memento, memory, mind, relic, remembrance), реминисценция, възпоминание (commemoration, remembrance), нещо което напомня (remembrancer, reminder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 回忆 (reawaken, recall, recollect, Re-collect, Recollected, Recollecting, reminiscent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | reminiscence, vzpomínka (afterthought, memory, recollection, remembrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یاداوری (Mention, Remembrance, Reminder), یادداشت (Chit, Memoir, Memorandum, Minute, Notation, Record), یادبود (Memorial, Memory, Reminiscent, Souvenir, Token), نشانه (Allegory, Emblem, Mark, Marker, Omen, Portent, Presage, Proof, Sacrament, Sign, Symptom, Token), خاطره (Impression, Memento, Memoir, Memory, Reminiscent, Souvenir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muistelma (recollection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réminiscence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reminiszenz (memory, resemblance, similarity), Erinnerung an. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάμνηση (evisceration, evocation, memory, recollection, remembrance), αναπόληση (contemplation, recollection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זכרון (commemoration, memorial, memory, mind, recollection, remembrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaemlékezés (recall, recollection, reminiscences), reminiszcencia, emlék (memory, monument, recollection, relic, remembrance, souvenir, vestige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | reminiscenza (recollection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 追想 (recollection), 追懐 (recollection, remembrance), 追憶 (recollection), 想い出 (memories, recollections), 思い出 (memories, recollections), "語り (old story), 回想録 (memoirs), 回想 (reflection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもいで (memories, recollections), ついおく (recollection), ついそう (recollection, sending an additional part later), ついかい (recollection, remembrance), かいそうろく (memoirs), かいそう (attendance at a funeral, class, fast sailing, forwarding, hierarchy, level, marine plant, petty officer, reburial, reflection, remodelling, reorganization, rout, seaweed, shipping, stampede, stratum), むかしがたり (old story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooinaght (commemoration, remembrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eminiscenceray reminiscências, reminiscência (memory, recollection), memórias (memoirs, memorable). (various references) reminiscenţã (memory). (various references) воспоминание (memorial, memory, mind, recall, recollection, remember). (various references) uspomena (keepsake, memento, memory, remembrance, souvenir, token), sećanje (memory, recollect, recollection, remembrance). (various references) reminiscencia. (various references) minne (keepsake, mem, memento, memory, mind, recall, recollection, relic, remembrance, souvenir, storage, store, token). (various references) hatırlatan şey, hatırlama (anamnesis, recall, recollection, remembrance), andırma, anımsama. (various references) спогад (anamnesis, memory, recollection, remembrance, souvenir). (various references) sự nhớ lại (recollection). (various references) atgof (remembrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | reminiscentia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reminiscence": reminiscences. (additional references) | |
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"Reminiscence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: remeniscence, reminescence, reminiscance, reminissence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reminiscence" (pronounced re'muni"suns) |
| 4 | -s u n s | absence, acquiescence, adolescence, beneficence, convalescence, essence, evanescence, innocence, licence, license, luminescence, nuisance, obsolescence, phosphorescence, quintessence, reconnaissance, reticence, senescence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, adherence, admirations, admittance, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, luminance, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, obedience, observance, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-r-s" | |
-2 letters: eminencies. | |
-3 letters: eminences, insincere, nescience, recencies, reminisce. | |
-4 letters: cinerins, eminence, reinsmen. | |
-5 letters: cimices, cinerin, eccrine, eirenic, emeries, enemies, ermines, eserine, incense, irenics, meinies, menisci, mercies, mincers, mincier, minnies, science, sericin, sincere. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: reminiscences. | |
+5 letters: triboluminescence. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6D 69 6E 69 73 63 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -- .. -. .. ... -.-. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e m i n i s c e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 0063 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527179758075856971806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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