immediate memory

1. 1.

   what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it

   Synonymsshort-term memorySTM

   Broadermemory

Questions about immediate memory

What does immediate memory mean?

immediate memory means "what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it".

What is another word for immediate memory?

Close synonyms include short-term memory, STM. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immediate memory a common word?

immediate memory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.