Collins English-English Dictionary

reminiscence ["rεmɪ'nɪsəns]

1. 1. n the act of recalling or narrating past experiences

2. 2. n [often plural] some past experience, event, etc, that is recalled or narrated; anecdote

3. 3. n an event, phenomenon, or experience that reminds one of something else

4. 4. n (in the philosophy of Plato) the doctrine that perception and recognition of particulars is possible because the mind has seen the universal forms of all things in a previous disembodied existence

5. 5. n [psychol] the ability to perform a task better when tested some time after the task has been learnt than when tested immediately after learning it