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

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Etymology

Origin of mneme

1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; see mnemonic

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Example Sentences

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mneme

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

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 Auguste Forel

The phenomena of the hereditary mneme show clearly how ontogeny is the result of engraphia combined with selection, in the series of ancestors.

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

They simply represent the internal or introspective side of central activity, and the brain obeys the natural laws of the mneme in the same way as the other organs.

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

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

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