memorizer
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- noun
- /ˈmɛmərˌaɪzər/
:
memorista
- While certainly open to various definitions, they linguistically presuppose the idea of "a memory," which may be seen as separate from the "memorizer," who acquires it by "memorizing."
Examples
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In order to prevent simple repetition of class discussion or summary of documents by my skilled memorizers, all the essay questions from which they could choose required students to draw on material from at least three different class sessions.
Academic text (1998) -
"Like a bird caught in a snare, we suffer from the nature of our times"... or words to that effect, I'm no memorizer, but this is the nature of our time... nothing personal, I guess.
Blog text (4) -
Judd's grades had tumbled during the last year, but he had always been a good memorizer, probably from all the years he had spent in Bible memory clubs as a kid.
Fiction book (1998) -
Synaptic plasticity in this paradigm is implied to aid the memorizer in the memorization process.
Academic text (2017) -
As a dedicated student, she became a skilled memorizer by practicing her lessons every day.
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Professional memorizers often use unique techniques to recall vast amounts of information.
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He is known as an excellent memorizer, able to recite poetry from memory without any mistakes.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Memorizer comes from the root memor-, which means 'mindful' or 'remember', and the ending -er means 'a person or thing that does'. This root is the same as the simple word memory, so a memorizer is someone who makes things stay in the mind, often by practice and repetition.