Thesaurus: memory

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1. n. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
2. n. 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. n. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
4. n. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
5. n. 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. n. A memorial.
7. n. something that is remembered
8. n. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
9. n. the power of retaining and recalling past experience
10. n. an electronic memory device
11. n. the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes