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; mnemonic

Example Sentences

They simply represent the internal or introspective side of central activity, and the brain obeys the natural laws of the mneme in the same way as the other organs.

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

The way in which Semon studies and discusses the laws of the mneme in morphology, physiology and psychology, is truly magisterial, and the perspective which opens out from these new ideas is extensive.

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

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

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