Reminiscential

//ˌɹɛmɪnɪˈsɛnʃ(ə)l// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to remembering; reminiscent.

    "Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before."

  2. 2
    Having a tendency to reminisce (of a person)

    "His curiosity had been more appeased than stimulated, but he felt none the less that he had "taken up" the dark-browed girl and her reminiscential mother, and must face the immediate consequences of the act."

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"Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before."

Etymology

From Late Latin reminiscentia + -al.

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