short-term memory

1. 1.

   what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it

   SynonymsSTMimmediate memory

   Broadermemory

Questions about short-term memory

What does short-term memory mean?

short-term memory means "what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it".

What is another word for short-term memory?

Close synonyms include STM, immediate 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 short-term memory a common word?

short-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.