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Mneme

//ˈniːm// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    One of the moons of the planet Jupiter, in the Ananke satellite group.
Noun
  1. 1
    Persisting effect of memory of past events.

    "If the engraphia of the external world could sensibly modify in a few generations the hereditary mneme of the species, it appears evident that the Jewish infants of the present day would be born without prepuce, or at least with an atrophied one."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Mneme which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904. First attested in English in 1921 where it was capitalized Mneme. From Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē).

Etymology 2

Named after Mneme, one of the three original Muses in Ancient Greek mythology. [from March 2005]

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