REMINISCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reminiscent mean? 

• REMINISCENT (adjective)
  The adjective REMINISCENT has 1 sense:

1. serving to bring to mind

  Familiarity information: REMINISCENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMINISCENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to bring to mind

Synonyms:

evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant

Context example:

a campaign redolent of machine politics

Similar:

aware; mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)

Derivation:

reminisce (recall the past)

reminiscence (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))

reminiscence (a mental impression retained and recalled from the past)

 Context examples 

The stromal sarcomatous changes are of low grade and are often reminiscent of low grade fibrosarcomas.

(Borderline Phyllodes Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A team of scientists discovered that Titan's lakes are reminiscent of what are known as karstic landforms on Earth.

(The Mysterious 'Lakes' on Saturn's Moon Titan, NASA)

Although this is reminiscent of Mars, the cause is almost certainly very different.

(Pluto: The 'Other' Red Planet, NASA)

Kepler-186f is more reminiscent of Earth.

(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)

Morphologically it is characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells containing glycogen vacuoles which are usually subnuclear and reminiscent of early secretory endometrium.

(Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma, Secretory Variant, NCI Thesaurus)

The differentiated type is characterized by the presence of smaller cells and cellular stratification reminiscent of transitional cell carcinoma.

(Nasopharyngeal Nonkeratinizing Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also, the strain has defective macrophage function reminiscent of lps mutation common to other strains.

(A/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The waves have characteristic rising tones — reminiscent of the sounds of chirping birds — and are able to efficiently accelerate electrons.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

Signs and symptoms usually present late in the course of the disease and are reminiscent of those of chronic cholecystitis including right upper quadrant pain.

(Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The golden year was dying as it had lived, a beautiful and unrepentant voluptuary, and reminiscent rapture and content freighted heavily the air.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)