Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REM-I-NIS'CENCE, n. [Fr. from L. reminiscens, reminiscor, Gr. μναομαι. See Memory.]

1. That faculty of the mind by which ideas formerly received into it, but forgotten, are recalled or revived in the memory. – Encyc.
2. Recollection; recovery of ideas that had escaped from the memory. – Hale.
3. Reminiscence seems often to signify recollection expressed; a relation of what is recollected.