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Antonyms for memory

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mem-uh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛm ə ri


Definition of memory

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "recollection (of someone or something); awareness, consciousness," also "fame, renown, reputation," from Anglo-French memorie (Old French memoire, 11c., "mind, memory, remembrance; memorial, record") and directly from Latin memoria "memory, remembrance, faculty of remembering," noun of quality from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE root *(s)mer- "to remember" (Sanskrit smarati "remembers," Avestan mimara "mindful;" Greek merimna "care, thought," mermeros "causing anxiety, mischievous, baneful;" Serbo-Croatian mariti "to care for;" Welsh marth "sadness, anxiety;" Old Norse Mimir, name of the giant who guards the Well of Wisdom; Old English gemimor "known," murnan "mourn, remember sorrowfully;" Dutch mijmeren "to ponder"). Meaning "faculty of remembering" is late 14c. in English.
  • I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. [Mark Twain, "Autobiography"]
  • Computer sense, "device which stores information," is from 1946. Related: Memories.
  • noun ability to hold in the mind
  • noun specific thing remembered
Example sentences :
  • It is a tribute to the memory and worth of one of his early friends at Eton.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • Some one has said of Mr. Gladstone that his memory was "terrible."
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • It was out of this anger, oddly enough, that the memory of the girl came to him.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • It is contemplated to erect a monument, by subscription, to Mr. Fessenden's memory.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • It was the music of climes where sorrow is but the memory of that which has been turned into joy.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Boys were flogged at boundaries, to impress the boundaries on their memory.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • When he had only kissed her arm—He trembled a little at the memory.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Max had roused at the sound of Le Moyne's voice, not to suspicion, of course, but to memory.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Madam, you have interrupted me in the middle of my period, and have troubled my memory.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • The kivas opened downward from a hole in the roof in memory of Shipapu.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

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