n.1 the act of remembering things past; the recovery of knowledge by mental effort.
2 a a past fact or experience that is remembered. b the process of narrating this.
3 (in pl.) a collection in literary form of incidents and experiences that a person remembers.
4 Philos. (esp. in Platonism) the theory of the recovery of things known to the soul in previous existences.
5 a characteristic of one thing reminding or suggestive of another.
Derivatives:
reminiscential adj.
Etymology: LL reminiscentia f. L reminisci remember