Reminiscent vs False - What's the difference?
reminiscent | false |
of, or relating to reminiscence
suggestive of an earlier event or times
tending to bring some memory etc. to mind
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Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
* Sir W. Hamilton
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between reminiscent and false
is that reminiscent is of, or relating to reminiscence while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun reminiscent
is one who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.reminiscent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent .
Synonyms
* evocative * redolent * remindful * resonantExternal links
* *false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
