| mneme (n.) | mne·me |
| 1. Psychology
the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for
memory, persisting effect of memory of past events. A unit of memory and taken from the Greek mimneskesthai, to remember (and ultimately from Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory.) | |
| 2. (capitolized) Class. Myth. the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses. Cf."Aoede, Melete." | |
| mnemic, a. mnemist |