Synonyms of reminiscences

reminiscences

noun

plural of reminiscence

as in recollections

a particular act or instance of recalling or the thing remembered

his reminiscences about the war were painful to hear

Synonyms & Similar Words

• recollections
• memories
• memorials
• remembrances
• recalls
• anamneses
• reminders
• mementos
• souvenirs
• flashbacks
• tokens
• associations

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reminiscences

The cruel cartoon of a constantly shrewish, venal, and disloyal Mary began cementing itself in the public mind when William Herndon, Lincoln’s Springfield law partner, started lecturing about his reminiscences within months of the President’s murder. — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026

The cruel cartoon of a constantly shrewish, venal, and disloyal Mary began cementing itself in the public mind when William Herndon, Lincoln’s Springfield law partner, started lecturing about his reminiscences within months of the President’s murder. — Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026

Ah, reminiscences of days working on an oil rig gone by! — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026

McLarty and Walker shift from depressive introspection to giggling reminiscences. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026

In the nightmare scenario that kicks off Transcription, the disabling of the narrator’s phone—that ingenious receptacle for distraction, and discomfort, and crap—sets in motion a series of observations and reminiscences that prod the narrator’s unconscious, bringing the novel into being. — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

The novel, which jumps around in time from spectral reminiscences of the nineteenth century to the late 1980s and early 1990s and into the twenty-first century, follows the members of a Brooklyn family attempting to find stability while struggling with their strange attunement to the dead. — Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026

Many folks shared reminiscences of the old days. — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026

Brooks isn’t too macho to tear up during these reminiscences. — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026