long-term memory

1. 1.

   your general store of remembered information

   SynonymsLTM

   Broadermemory

   Narrowerepisodic memorysemantic memorymotor memory

Questions about long-term memory

What does long-term memory mean?

long-term memory means "your general store of remembered information".

What is another word for long-term memory?

Close synonyms include LTM. 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 long-term memory a common word?

long-term 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.