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English

Etymology

acute +? -ness

Noun

acuteness (usually uncountable, plural acutenesses)

1. The quality of being acute or pointed

2. (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness

3. Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
4. (medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
5. Shrewdness, quickness of mind

Synonyms

• acuity, sharpness, acumen, keenness

Related terms

• acutance

Translations

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Alternative forms

• memorie (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek ????? (mn?m?, “memory”) ???????? (mérmeros, “anxious”), ??????? (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mem?o?ry, mem?ory

Noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

1. (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

   Synonym: recall

2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

   Synonyms: recall, recollection

3. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

   Synonym: (dated) core
4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

5. (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated

6. (obsolete) A memorial.
7. (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• in-memory

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See also

• memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• remember
• mnemonics