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

Etymology

Origin of mneme

1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic

Example Sentences

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

From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin

I refer to the book of Richard Semon: "The mneme considered as the conservative principle in the transmutations of organic life."

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

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 Forel, Auguste

But what does not exist in the hereditary mneme, that is to say in the energies of germs, inherited through thousands or millions of years, cannot be created in a few generations.

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

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 Forel, Auguste