mneme

American  

[nee-mee] / ˈni mi /

noun

1. Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.

2. (initial capital letter) the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.

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Other Word Forms

• mnemic adjective

Etymology

Origin of mneme

1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic

Example Sentences

The phenomena of the hereditary mneme show clearly how ontogeny is the result of engraphia combined with selection, in the series of ancestors.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

Blastophthoria deranges the mneme or hereditary engrams, and consequently a more or less considerable part of their ecphorias during the life of the individuals which arise from them.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

The way in which Semon studies and discusses the laws of the mneme in morphology, physiology and psychology, is truly magisterial, and the perspective which opens out from these new ideas is extensive.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

But what does not exist in the hereditary mneme, that is to say in the energies of germs, inherited through thousands or millions of years, cannot be created in a few generations.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste