Wednesday, April 1, 2015

REMINISCENCE

WORD: REMINISCENCE

MEANING:
1. the act of recalling or narrating past experiences
2. (often plural) some past experience, event, etc, that is recalled or narrated; anecdote
3. an event, phenomenon, or experience that reminds one of something else
4. (Philosophy) (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. (Psychology) 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
6. nostalgia, memories


EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rahul Dravid: We have short reminiscence, Virat Kohli was sensational during test series.
2. Old reminiscences of my college days are still fresh in my mind.


PRONOUNCE:
rem·i·nis·cence - रेमनिसन्स

LINK: REMINISCENCE

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