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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of committing something to memory or memorizing. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   learning so as to be able to remember verbatim wordnet

Synonyms

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committal to memoryeducationeruditionflashbackhindsightknowledge

Example

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"Mathematics is not just the memorization of formulas."

Etymology

From memorize + -ation.

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