mneme
Americannoun
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Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
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(initial capital letter) the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.
Other Word Forms
- mnemic adjective
Etymology
Origin of mneme
1910–15; < Greek mnḗmē memory; mnemonic
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
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 Forel, Auguste
The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.
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
There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.
From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin
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