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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Semon also shows that the phenomena of regeneration in the embryo, as well as those of the adult, obey the law of the mneme.
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
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
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
There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.
From Cratylus by Benjamin Jowett
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