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

See Examples For:

mneme

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 Auguste Forel

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 Auguste Forel

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 Auguste Forel

If there is a river of mneme as a counterpart of the river lethe, my cup of coffee must have got its water from that stream of memory.

From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes

They simply represent the internal or introspective side of central activity, and the brain obeys the natural laws of the mneme in the same way as the other organs.

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