mnemosyne
IPA: nimˈoʊsɪn
Root Word: Mnemosyne
noun
- (Greek mythology) A Titaness and the personification of thought, intellect and memory. She is the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.
- (astronomy) 57 Mnemosyne, a main belt asteroid.
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Examples of "mnemosyne" in Sentences
- The latest fragment of mnemosyne plucked from the pickled depths of Sorrel's gin barrel mind?
- But I also profess myself boggled at mnemosyne saying:Amanda is one of the most divisive figures on the internet.
- It has been one year since I started using mnemosyne which is a spaced repitition software program and I credit it for a vast increase in my Spanish language vocabulary.
- The result is a poetry in which the physis and mnemosyne — rerouted through the Keatsian image — ventriloquize his (and, perhaps, our own) deep-seated desire for an existence unburdened by the rigors of philosophical discourse or by the unrelenting ironic awareness of its impossibility.
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