race memory
English
Noun
race memory (countable and uncountable, plural race memories)
- (psychology) A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors.
- Synonyms: genetic memory, racial memory
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.
See also
- Race memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia