short-term memory

Questions about short-term memory

What is another word for short-term memory?

It depends which short-term memory you mean. In the sense “what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it”, the synonyms are STM, immediate memory. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 short-term memory?

WordNet records no antonym for short-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 short-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 short-term memory

• Full entry for short-term memoryAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for short-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.