Memory Definition
mĕmə-rē
memories
noun
memories
The power, act, or process of recalling to mind facts previously learned or past experiences.
Webster's New World
The total of what one remembers.
Webster's New World
A person, thing, happening, or act as recalled to mind.
Webster's New World
All that a person can remember.
It hasn't happened in my memory.
American Heritage
Something that is remembered.
Pleasant childhood memories.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- remembrance
- reminiscence
- recollection
- recall
- remembering
- retentivity
- retentiveness
- retention
- memory board
- computer storage
- storage
- store
- computer-memory
- reexperiencing
- déjà vu (French)
Antonyms:
- mnemosyne
- memorize
- memorable
- memorabilia
- lethe
- immortalize
- remember
- immemorial
- forgetfulness
- ecmnesia. associatedwords: mnemonics
- amnesic
- amnesia
- ignorance
- phrenotypics
- oblivion
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Origin of Memory
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From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account"), from memor (“mindful, remembering"), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mneme, “memory") μέρμερος (mermeros, “anxious"), μέριμνα (merimna, “care, thought"), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering"). More at mimmer.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English memorie from Anglo-French from Latin memoria from memor mindful (s)mer-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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