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What about eidetic? (what about it I hear you say)
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I like eidetic, but technically, that is the adjective for photographic memory.
But let's not lose heart yet. After all, bad breath has its halitotic, prison its carceral.
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... and yesterday has its hesternal, and summer its aestival.
You wanna know the truth? My experience seems to suggest that if you can't find a word, AWADtalk won't be able to help you. And that's not talking down the board. It's just to make the point that if the word is out there (even if there is here!) Google is your best bet.
Wordsmith Talk, then, is a great place to chat about words, make friends, and sometimes, just sometimes, to be thrown a bone by someone with better Googling skills that you. : )
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Memory is so broad a subject that we need to have an idea what about memory we're after if we are to try to find a suitable adjective, don't we?
If we're not limited to an etymological root, we have more possibilities; for instance, one could consider using unforgettable, or memorable (suggested by Faldage), or possibly another adjective, for one meaning related to memory.
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There's just no adjective for memory; though, if we are going to make one up, I like memoric.
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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"]
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Nabokov uses mnemonic like that, more than once in the 12 novels of his I have read. I think it works pretty well too, with a dash of artistic license. It was just the necessity of that dash that prompted my little query. The man is a millionaire of words.
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Wow, Hydra, I haven't been able to come up with an adjectival form for memory. And though you did not explicitly ask, I've thought of two for thought: thinking and sentient.
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I don't know if this is right, but to me, thinking is the adjective of thinking the noun not thought the noun. Hence, "A thinking man," but not "thinking flashes" for "flashes of thought." Sentient, to me, is feeling. "A sentient mollusk," for example can't think (?).
But if any one would like to join me, I will be storming Oxford University Press tomorrow at dawn to demand the inclusion of my "memoric" into our lexicon.
Mouthfroth optional.
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