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

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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

Thanks to the power of the ancestral mneme which tends to reëstablish homophony.

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

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

The theory of the mneme throws light on this subject, by introducing a new factor in the question, that of ecphoria of the cerebral engrams of the ancestors, accumulated in the hereditary mneme.

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