different between reminisce vs recollect

English

Etymology

Back-formation from reminiscence, from Latin remin?sc?ns, present participle of remin?scor (“remember”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???m.??n?s/

Verb

reminisce (third-person singular simple present reminisces, present participle reminiscing, simple past and past participle reminisced)

1. (intransitive) To recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.
2. (intransitive) To talk or write about memories of the past, especially pleasant memories.
3. (transitive, India) To remember fondly; to reminisce about.
   • 2006, Amitava Bhattacharya, Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (page 34)

     He reminisced the old Parvati who was now this Parvati.

   • 2012, Satish C. Bhatnagar, Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories (volume 1, page 16)

     She fondly reminisced the two years before marriage when Frank served in the US Army.

Related terms

• remember
• reminiscence
• reminiscent
• reminiscential

Translations

Noun

reminisce (plural reminisces)

1. (informal) An act of reminiscence.

Latin

Verb

remin?sce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of remin?sc?

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /??k??l?kt/
• (US) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /??k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

Related terms

• collect
• recollection

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? collect

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /?i?k??l?kt/
• (US) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /?i?k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.

   • The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.

   • 1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)

     The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.

Anagrams

• collecter