personal memory

1. 1.

   memory for episodes in your own life

   Synonymsepisodic memory

   Broaderlong-term memory

Questions about personal memory

What does personal memory mean?

personal memory means "memory for episodes in your own life".

What is another word for personal memory?

Close synonyms include episodic 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 personal memory a common word?

personal 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.