mneme
Speech parts
1. mneme - Noun
2. Mneme - Proper noun
Meaning
mneme (plural mnemes)
Persisting effect of memory of past events. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Mneme
(astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.
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Examples
But how is Mneme dreaded by the race, Who scorn her warnings and despise her grace? By her unveil'd each horrid crime appears, Her awful hand a cup of wormwood bears. Days, years mispent, O what a hell of woe! Hers the worst tortures that our souls can know.
Laurent also found the term mneme used in Maurice Maeterlinck 's The Life of the White Ant (1926), and has highlighted the similarities to Dawkins's concept.
The ancient Greek anamnēsis, normally translated as "recollection" was opposed to mneme or memory.