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if you really want something with some historic bite, memorous is an obs. rare form, used in the sense of the Latin memor, or mindful.
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memorous
If it's archaic or pretend words you're looking for, you could do no worse than Old English myndig (which would be mindy these days) 'mindful', or along the lines of German denkwürdig 'memorable', thoughtworthy. (There was an OE myndwyrðe 'worth mentioning'.)
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I think mnemonic works, though perhaps it would be a new usage. it certainly hearkens back to the Greek root.
[Mid-18th century. <mnemonics, or < Greek mnēmonikos "relating to memory" < mnēmon- "mindful"] Mnemonic is usually a noun. Nabokov's use of it as an adjective is probably novel, yes. (no pun intended)
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I think mnemonic works, though perhaps it would be a new usage. it certainly hearkens back to the Greek root.
[Mid-18th century. <mnemonics, or < Greek mnēmonikos "relating to memory" < mnēmon- "mindful"] Mnemonic is usually a noun. Nabokov's use of it as an adjective is probably novel, yes. (no pun intended) I know, but I still like it. I think it works.
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>Mnemonic is usually a noun.
mnemonic devices notwithstanding? (but there we go with the ol' adjective/noun split, again.)
-joe (a memorous dichotomy) friday
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>Mnemonic is usually a noun.
mnemonic devices notwithstanding? (but there we go with the ol' adjective/noun split, again.)
-joe (a memorous dichotomy) friday Here's a good debating subject: "That any noun can be used as an adjective."
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"That any noun can be used as an adjective."
If you're a flatus senex like me that's an easy one to answer: all adjectives are nouns. Nouns are substantive or adjective or a vice versa.
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"That any noun can be used as an adjective."
If you're a flatus senex like me My Latin is not too good but that sounds like you're admitting to being an old fart? 
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all adjectives are nouns. Nouns are substantive or adjective or a vice versa.
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("a dream-wide street with droshkies all awry under incredibly blue skies, which, farther away, melt automatically into a pink flush of mnemonic banality"),
And never needed no better word.
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