mnemonist
- noun
- /nəˈmɒnɪst/
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mnemotécnico
- A skilled mnemonist can remember long strings of numbers effortlessly.
Examples
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Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
Blog text (13) -
The concept of the image was familiar to Aristotle, and of course to the Greek and Roman mnemonists, who used imagery as a matter of course in their construction of artificial memory aids (Yates, 1966).
Academic text (2002) -
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten.
Blog text (13) -
Luria thought of his own two books, The Mind of a Mnemonist (1968) and The Man with a Shattered World (1972), as written "in a more purely romantic style" (178).
Academic text (2009) -
From Dante to John Bunyan, the quest literature of Christianity has always boasted authors who, much like the classical and medieval mnemonists, created their own special kind of inner topography.
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During the memory championship, the mnemonist amazed the audience by recalling the order of a shuffled deck of cards.
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The young mnemonist demonstrated her extraordinary abilities by memorizing thousands of digits of pi.
Synonyms
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A person who learns things by repeating them until they can remember them
A person or thing that helps you remember past events
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mnemonist comes from the Greek root mnemo-, which means 'memory' or 'remembering' and is the same root in mnemonic, a word for tricks that help you remember. So a mnemonist is someone who has a very good memory and uses those tricks.