mnemogenic

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adjective

That creates or reinforces a memory.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivemnemogenic (comparative more mnemogenic, superlative most mnemogenic)

comparative more mnemogenic · superlative most mnemogenic

  1. That creates or reinforces a memory.

    Two specific examples of mnemogenic chemical reactions have been identified as potentially maintaining long-lasting synaptic facilitation in Aplysia.

    2010, J. David Sweatt, Mechanisms of Memory, page 67
    2 more examples

    People liked her because she was quietly attractive with her charming dim face and soft husky voice, somehow remaining in one's memory as if she were subtly endowed with the gift of being remembered: she came out well in one's mind, she was mnemogenic.

    1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 69

    [T]hat the remembering individual may be only one mnemogenic agent marks a counterpoint to the mainstream of psychological memory studies in the twentieth century.

    2008, Attilio Favorini, Memory in Play, page 103

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