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

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Etymology

Origin of mneme

1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic

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Example Sentences

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mneme

The mental faculties of animal species, as well as their physical characters, depend on their ancestral hereditary mneme.

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

Thanks to the power of the ancestral mneme which tends to reëstablish homophony.

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

In my opinion the phenomena of the mneme revealed by Hering and Semon explain the apparent contradictions which have hitherto impaired the theories of heredity.

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

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

The theory of the mneme throws light on this subject, by introducing a new factor in the question, that of ecphoria of the cerebral engrams of the ancestors, accumulated in the hereditary mneme.

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

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