collective memory

noun

1. a memory or memories shared or recollected by a group, as a community or culture.
2. any collection of memories passed from one generation to the next.

collective memory

noun

1. the shared memories of a group, family, race, etc

Example Sentences

Some of the historical topics we cover will be big and familiar, and others will come from the tapestry of smaller, local events that changed American society and politics, then disappeared from our collective memory.

From Washington Post

That map is not in the genome, however, but in a kind of collective memory of the cells themselves.

From Quanta Magazine

You can really connect the personal memory to more of a collective memory.

From Washington Post

It’s also been keenly cruel to the collective memory of Major League Baseball — and its best players.

From FiveThirtyEight

While their men have left an indelible imprint on our collective memory the women who gave them vital support, encouragement and direction have largely remained relegated to the footnotes of history.

From Time

We all seem to understand that the fantasy Lorde describes requires a deep archive of collective memory.

From The Daily Beast

While the Gettysburg Address was—and is—iconic, the battle is an important part of our collective memory.

From The Daily Beast

It is as if the Federalist Papers and the concept of the citizen-soldier had been erased from our collective memory.

From The Daily Beast

But when he runs into two old friends, he gets clued into something strange: a month has gone missing from the collective memory.

From The Daily Beast

Rituals are a form of sharing and collective memory, a sui generis calendar, characteristic of an implicit sense of time.

From Project Gutenberg