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race memories

race memories is the plural of race memory.

Meaning of race memory

Noun

race memory (countable and uncountable, plural race memories)

  1. A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors.
    • Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about race memories

What is race memories the plural of?
Race memories is the plural of race memory.

Words near race memories in the dictionary

  1. race lifted
  2. race lifting
  3. race lifts
  4. race meeting
  5. race meetings
  6. race memories
  7. race memory
  8. race mixer
  9. race mixers
  10. race mixing
  11. race monger

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