memoryful

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English

Etymology 1

From memory +‎ -ful.

Adjective

memoryful (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with a memory; capable of retaining information about what has happened before.
    • 1909 May, The Circle and Success Magazine‎, page 281:
      The Guest Book has a horde of other memoryful signatures.
    • 1920, The Mentor‎, volume 8, page 191:
      Like a great many other Nova Scotia towns that make provision for the tourist, Annapolis, the rare, the old, the memoryful, has pleasant stopping places of homely atmosphere.
    • 2016, Alexander B. Boyd, Dibyendu Mandal, James P. Crutchfield, “Correlation-powered Information Engines and the Thermodynamics of Self-Correction”, in arXiv‎:
      We give a broadly applicable expression for the work production of an information engine, generally modeled as a memoryful channel that communicates inputs to outputs as it interacts with an evolving environment.
Antonyms

Etymology 2

From memory +‎ -ful.

Noun

memoryful (plural not attested)

  1. (rare) An amount that is held by the memory.
    • 1964, Anthologies of New Zealand writing, volume 2, page 129:
      the company of a group of young athletes: and this athletic principle included even the sprinkling of oddities (one of them a lame young hunchback with features of aquiline delicacy, who was cherished for a memoryful of sporting statistics)
    • 1965, Eugene Fodor, Fodor's Guide to India, page 97:
      Any visitor will soon have a memoryful of such images and experiences.
    • 1982 June, Texas Monthly‎, volume 10, number 6, page 176:
      He has everything: opera, love, friendship, a memoryful of adventures.
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