mneme

[ nee-mee ]

noun

1. Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
2. (initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.

Other Words From

• mne·mic [nee, -mik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mneme¹

1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; mnemonic

Example Sentences

The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.

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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.

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

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I refer the reader to what has been said concerning the mneme (Chapter I).

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There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.

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