mnemonics means the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MNEMONICS — [Noun] The study and practice of techniques for improving or aiding the memory. From Ancient Greek μνημονικός (mnēmonikós, "of or pertaining to memory"), from μνήμων (mnḗmōn, "remembering, mindful"), from μνάομαι (mnáomai, "to remember"). Unlike "rote" (which is the mindless hammering of data through hollow repetition) or "anamnesis" (which implies a Platonic recollection of innate truths), mnemonics is the pragmatic art of domesticating the elusive. It is the conversion of a dry sequence into a bawdy narrative, the careful placement of a grocery list upon the furniture of a mental hallway, or the knot tied in a handkerchief not for the hand, but for the mind—a conscious threading of silk bridges across the silent, inevitable tide of forgetting.
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- The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.