long-term memory

Questions about long-term memory

What is another word for long-term memory?

It depends which long-term memory you mean. In the sense “your general store of remembered information”, the synonyms are LTM. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of long-term memory?

WordNet records no antonym for long-term memory. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for long-term memory come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of long-term memory

• Full entry for long-term memoryAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for long-term memoryWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.