mneme
Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
(initial capital letter)Classical Mythology. the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.
Origin of mneme
1Other words from mneme
- mne·mic [nee-mik], /ˈni mɪk/, adjective
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How to use mneme in a sentence
The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.
The Sexual Question | August ForelSemon also shows that the phenomena of regeneration in the embryo, as well as those of the adult, obey the law of the mneme.
The Sexual Question | August ForelThe mental faculties of animal species, as well as their physical characters, depend on their ancestral hereditary mneme.
The Sexual Question | August ForelI refer the reader to what has been said concerning the mneme (Chapter I).
The Sexual Question | August ForelThere is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.
Cratylus | Plato
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