reminiscence

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For the hard part... Let the reminiscence kicks in and be amazed to how far we have gone.

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Quick take

a mental impression retained and recalled from the past

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noun

a mental impression retained and recalled from the past

noun

the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reminiscence.

noun

a mental impression retained and recalled from the past

noun

the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"

Example sentences

For the hard part... Let the reminiscence kicks in and be amazed to how far we have gone.

"He goes on to back his view up with evidence such as the reminiscence bump.[2]1.

This is going to end up a Myst reminiscence thread, but what's so wrong with that...?Myst was the first game my mum really got into.

Yes, less personal contact, perhaps a less meaningful job at the time meant more time brooding over everything due. Now that I do something people depend on and no longer live alone, I haven't felt the need to reminiscence.

A lot of people talk about the problems with bubble-wrapping children these days and it's going to be good to see if it is an actual phenomenon instead of just rose-coloured reminiscence.

In fact there was a very long discussion, initiated by me, about GPL and BSD to which you contributed a long irrelevant rambling reminiscence about Stallman.

"The comment was bad because it took a discussion around whether we are ourselves with our tech use and turned it into some kind of reminiscence about annoying mentally unhealthy people.

If one were alive today, I am sure a buggy whip manufacturing apprentice could provide the same type of nostalgic reminiscence: the smell of the leather, the suppleness of the whip, the acrid taste of the dyes.

The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.