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REMINISCENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to bring to mind

Example:

a campaign redolent of machine politics

Synonyms:

evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)

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 Context examples: 

Narcolepsy is a disorder that makes people feel excessively sleepy during the day and sometimes experience changes reminiscent of REM sleep, like loss of muscle tone in the limbs and hallucinations.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

Signs and symptoms include skin eruptions reminiscent of pellagra, aminoaciduria, and cerebellar ataxia.

(Hartnup Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists had thought dinosaur eggs were more like those of modern birds than modern reptiles, but this long hatch time is far more reminiscent of monitor lizard than magpie.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)

Six days after injections, the researchers found that the growing neurons exclusively filled their chambers while the growing blood vessel cells not only lined their chamber in a cobblestone pattern reminiscent of vessels in the body, but also snuck through the perforations in the chamber walls and contacted the neurons.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

Senior author Dr Despoina Mavridou, from the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial, said: This behavior is strongly reminiscent of the human 'divide and conquer' strategy, famously delineated by Niccolò Machiavelli in his book The Art of War and shows that bacteria are capable of very elaborate warfare tactics.

(Bacteria Can 'Divide and Conquer' to Vanquish Their Enemies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)