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collective memory

noun

Definitions

  1. A shared pool of information held in the memories of multiple members of a group.

    • Is it important, or even possible, for people to remember the events of Sept. 11 as they happened? Or is it more important for a society to concentrate on collective memory?
    • At the same time it vividly evokes the almost preposterous horror of war itself, which Mr. [Walid] Raad experiences both first hand and from a distance, and has evoked as semifictional collective memory.
    • The shift in the collective memory is also taking place in local schools, where some teachers still refuse to teach lessons on 1921.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for collective memory. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA