mnemonic

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /nɪˈmɒnɪk/, /nə-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nəˈmɑnɪk/, /ni-/

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• Homophone: pneumonic (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪk
• Hyphenation: mne‧mon‧ic

Borrowed from Late Latin mnemonicus or its etymon Ancient Greek μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, “pertaining to memory or remembrance, memorial”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Mνημονῐκός (Mnēmonĭkós) is derived from μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives); while μνήμων (mnḗmōn) is from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “to be mindful, remember”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”)) + -μων (-mōn, suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns).^[1]

mnemonic (not comparable)

1. Especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering.

   Synonyms: anamnestic, (archaic) memorial, (archaic) mnemonical

   Antonym: antimnemonic

2. Of or relating to mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
3. Of or relating to memory.

   Synonym: mnestic

• mnemonick (obsolete, rare)

Noun sense 1 (“something used to help in remembering a thing”) is borrowed from Latin mnēmonicum (“something used to help in remembering a thing”), from Ancient Greek μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “something used to help in remembering a thing”), a noun use of the neuter form of μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, adjective): see etymology 1. Noun sense 3 (“synonym of mnemonics”) is borrowed from Late Latin mnemonica, a noun use of the feminine form of mnemonicus: see etymology 1.^[1]

mnemonic (plural mnemonics)

1. Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.

   Synonyms: aide-mémoire, (rare) mnemonicon

   • 2003, Alex Kimbell, chapter 3, in The Unbridgeable Divide: A Love Story, Market Harborough, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, section I, page 54:

     Mr Avery was a great believer in mnemonics; he had one for every possible aspect of flying – which was as good a way as any for student pilots to familiarise themselves with their new environment, but unless used on a daily basis could also be dangerous, for there were so many of them.

2. (computing) The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).

• anamonic
• memory palace
• mimetic

• mnemonics
• neuro-mnemonic

• crib (“collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort”)

• mnemonic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mnemonic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “mnemonic” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “mnemonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Borrowed from French mnémonique.

mnemonic m or n (feminine singular mnemonică, masculine plural mnemonici, feminine and neuter plural mnemonice)

1. mnemonic

• mnemonic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN