Reminiscence vs. Nostalgia: What's the Difference?

The act or process of recollecting past experiences or events.

A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

An experience or event recollected

The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

Often reminiscences A narration of past experiences.

A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

An event that brings to mind a similar, former event.

(transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

An act of remembering long-past experiences, especially positive or pleasant ones, often fondly.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

A mental image thus remembered.

A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends.

The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.

Longing for something past

That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection; as, pleasing or painful reminiscences.

A mental impression retained and recalled from the past

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