motor memory

1. 1.

   your memory for motor skills

   Synonymsmuscle memory

   Broaderlong-term memory

Questions about motor memory

What does motor memory mean?

motor memory means "your memory for motor skills".

What is another word for motor memory?

Close synonyms include muscle memory. 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 motor memory a common word?

motor 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.