reminiscent

From Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“remember”), from re- (“again”) + min-, base of me-min-isse (“to remember, think over”), akin to mens (“mind”); see mental, mind, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛməˈnɪsnt/

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reminiscent (comparative more reminiscent, superlative most reminiscent)

1. Of, or relating to reminiscence.
2. Suggestive of an earlier event or times.
   • 2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record‎^[1]:

     It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany.

3. Tending to bring some memory etc. to mind (followed by of)

   That painting is very reminiscent of Picasso's later work.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5:

     The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.

4. Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent.

• evocative
• redolent
• remindful
• resonant

• reminiscence

reminiscent (plural reminiscents)

1. One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.

• “reminiscent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “reminiscent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.mɪˈniːs.kɛnt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.miˈniʃ.ʃen̪t̪]

reminīscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of reminīscō