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memorying

memorying noun: the act or process of remembering; the use of memory.

Noun

memorying (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of remembering; the use of memory.
    • No two human beings are born with the same perceptive ability, or exercise it within the same range, or have the same ability in memorying these perceptions, or the same accuracy of memory, or precisely the same ability in comparing their perceptions.1876, Charles Bradlaugh, Can Miracles be proved possible?
    • The corrective memorying signaled here is both an attempt at reclamation and redefinition: to call "her beloved, / Which was not beloved" is an act of renaming as the memory body that is claimed as the beloved is rescripted, reimagined, and reexperienced as a body constitutionally different than it...2004, Kevin Everod Quashie, Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (un)becoming the Subject, →ISBN

Questions about memorying

What does memorying mean?
Memorying means the act or process of remembering; the use of memory.
What part of speech is memorying?
Memorying is a noun.

Words near memorying in the dictionary

  1. memory-wipes
  2. memory-wiping
  3. memorycide
  4. memorycides
  5. memoryful
  6. memorying
  7. memoryless
  8. memorylessness
  9. memos
  10. memosphere
  11. mempachi

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