memoryful

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English

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Etymology 1

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From memory +‎ -ful.

Adjective

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memoryful (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with a memory; capable of retaining information about what has happened before.
    • 1909 May, The Circle and Success Magazine[1], page 281:
      The Guest Book has a horde of other memoryful signatures.
    • 1920, The Mentor[2], volume 8, page 191:
      Like a great many other Nova Scotia towns that make provision for the tourist, Annapolis, the rare, the old, the memoryful, has pleasant stopping places of homely atmosphere.
    • 2016, Alexander B. Boyd, Dibyendu Mandal, James P. Crutchfield, “Correlation-powered Information Engines and the Thermodynamics of Self-Correction”, in arXiv[3]:
      We give a broadly applicable expression for the work production of an information engine, generally modeled as a memoryful channel that communicates inputs to outputs as it interacts with an evolving environment.
Antonyms
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Etymology 2

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From memory +‎ -ful.

Noun

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memoryful (plural not attested)

  1. (rare) An amount that is held by the memory.
    • 1964, Anthologies of New Zealand writing, volume 2, page 129:
      [] the company of a group of young athletes: and this athletic principle included even the sprinkling of oddities (one of them a lame young hunchback with features of aquiline delicacy, who was cherished for a memoryful of sporting statistics) []
    • 1965, Eugene Fodor, Fodor's Guide to India, page 97:
      Any visitor will soon have a memoryful of such images and experiences.
    • 1982 June, Texas Monthly[4], volume 10, number 6, page 176:
      He has everything: opera, love, friendship, a memoryful of adventures.