Memory meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Noun

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

2. Noun

The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

3. Noun

The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

4. Noun

The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

5. Noun

Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

6. Noun

A memorial.

7. Noun

The ability to keep and recall information.

The capacity and processes used to encode, store and retrieve information.

“The experiment tested memory after a delay.”

8. Noun

the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"

Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

9. Noun

the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"

Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

10. Noun

something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"

Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

11. Noun

an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"

Vocabulary classified under Computing and technology

12. Noun

the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"

Vocabulary classified under Psychology