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; mnemonic

Example Sentences

In his book on "The Mneme," Semon explains the infecundity of hybrids in a very plausible manner, by the disorder that a too large quantity of dissimilar hereditary engrams causes in the hereditary mneme of two conjugated cells.

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

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A profound study of blastophthoria and all the phenomena of the mneme and normal heredity leaves no doubt on the possibility of attaining this object.

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The Mneme.—The secret of heredity lies in the phenomena which have been just described.

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I refer to the book of Richard Semon: "The mneme considered as the conservative principle in the transmutations of organic life."

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