noun
your general store of remembered information
• Syn: ↑LTM
• Hypernyms: ↑memory, ↑remembering
• Hyponyms: ↑episodic memory, ↑personal memory, ↑semantic memory, ↑motor memory, ↑muscle memory
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information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time, often over the entire life span of the individual (contrasted with short-term memory).
[1965-70]
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long-term memory UK US noun [uncountable]
the part of your memory that remembers things that happened a long time ago
Thesaurus: memory and memoriessynonym
Useful english dictionary. 2012.