mneme
Americannoun
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Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
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(initial capital letter) the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.
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Etymology
Origin of mneme
1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic
Example Sentences
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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 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
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.
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
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
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