mnemonically
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To help you remember things
- adverb
- /nəˈmɒnɪkli/
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mnemotécnicamente
- She created a song that helped her learn mnemonically for the science test.
Examples
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Many students use rhymes mnemonically to help remember vocabulary words.
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When you learn grammar rules mnemonically, as soon as you stop repeating the singsong jingles, you forget them, which is why most people can't go beyond the first line of "Jabberwocky" and can only remember "Amo, amas, amat..." from their years of Latin training.
Academic text (1994) -
I misplaced quite a bit of time mnemonically.
Fiction book (1995) -
Using flashcards mnemonically allowed him to recall the information easily during the exam.
How Memorable
Surface Forms
mnemonically positive
Morphology
Etymology
Mnemonically comes from the Greek root mnemon, which means 'memory' and is the same idea behind the English word memory and the word mnemonic. So when something is done mnemonically, it is arranged to help you remember.