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

In time, details of this World Series will gradually fade from the city’s collective memory.

From Los Angeles Times

The ad speaks effectively to a central concern in the American Jewish psyche going into Election Day, as we have just marked the anniversary of the collective memory–triggering Oct.

From Slate

Trump’s question reflects a widespread public amnesia that has clouded over our collective memory of COVID.

From Salon

Yet unless these memories are processed and commemorated, they will remain dormant in our collective memory, where they run the risk of being triggered, Makari said.

From Salon

“Regardless of whether we rebuild the bridges or rebuild the buildings, it’s like that bereavement never goes away,” said Williams, who recalls sensing a similar atmosphere of loss during her time in Phnom Penh, where, as she remembers, the trauma of war lurked in collective memory “just barely under the skin.”

From Salon