Vocabulary

[notb665]

What's that word that means a smell or a sound or a song or some other stimulation evokes a memory of something? I have wanted to know for ages!

 

[ninebob]

What's that word that means a smell or a sound or a song or some other stimulation evokes a memory of something? I have wanted to know for ages!

Evocative

 

[notb665]

No, it's a name of a phenomenom type thing, a happening.

 

[noodlz]

That's an interesting one...are you sure there's such a word? Is it English or something like a French phrase such as deja vu?

 

[markie]

Deja vu

 

[Richardp]

hello

 

[noodlz]

Deja vu

I've seen that before somewhere...but where?

 

[notb665]

Say you smell some bread cooking, and you think "Mmm, that reminds me of going to my Great Nan's house". There is a word that is the name of how something reminds you of something else, how something evokes a memory. It's an English word.

I once went to a grammar course for scientists and the speaker said it then.

 

[noodlz]

Nostalgia?

 

[JohnD]

Cognitive resonance?

You're thinking of the Apricot smell of Madelaines, aren't you?

 

[noodlz]

Cognitive resonance?

That rings a bell.

 

[JohnD]

I can only think of remembrance; evocation; search for the past; calling to mind; recall.

However, in French there is the concept of the "involuntary memory" though I don't know a good English equivalent.

 

[nelsy]

Reminiscence?

 

[empip]

poignant
As in :-
sentimental
emotional, heart-rending, impressive, intense, moving, passionate, sad, sorrowful, touching.


Nostalgia
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[chainsaw_masochist]

Could it be redolent? [EVOCATIVE,SUGGESTIVE <he was now in the grip of diarrhoea, ~ of a previous visit to Bombay>]