Sell also: remembering, retention, storage, store
• Noun: something that is remembered; example: "search as he would, the memory was lost"
• Noun: the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; examples: "he can do it from memory", "he enjoyed remembering his father"
• Noun: the power of retaining and recalling past experience; example: "he had a good memory when he was younger"
• Noun: an electronic memory device; example: "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
• Noun: the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; example: "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.