memory
memory is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
- 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.
- noun. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
- noun. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
- 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.
- noun. A memorial.
- noun. an electronic memory device
"a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- noun. the power of retaining and recalling past experience
"he had a good memory when he was younger"
- noun. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
"he can do it from memory"
"he enjoyed remembering his father"
- noun. something that is remembered
"search as he would, the memory was lost"
- noun. the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
"he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
Synonyms
storage, store, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, remembering
Common word forms
memoried, memories, memoryless
Words from these letters
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