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Definition of Personal memory
1. Noun. Memory for episodes in your own life.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personal Memory
Literary usage of Personal memory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science Delivered by William Robert Grove, British Association for the Advancement of Science (1867)
"He has not only personal memory which brings to his mind at will the events of
his individual life—he has history, the memory of the race; he has geology, ..."
2. Home-talks by John Humphrey Noyes (1875)
"It is very beautiful to think, that besides our personal memory, we have, in that
good Spirit that whispers within us, a great transferred memory, or, ..."
3. Essays and Phantasies by James Thomson (1881)
"This personal memory of Smith's is day by day and hour by hour supported, corrected,
strengthened, intensified, by the memories of Brown, Jones, ..."
4. Hours of Thought on Sacred Things by James Martineau (1900)
"There is the purely personal memory which reflects always the image of our
individual selves ; revives our actual experiences ; writes our own biography ..."
5. Hours of Thought on Sacred Things: A Volume of Sermons by James Martineau (1879)
"There is the purely personal memory which reflects always the image of our
individual selves; revives our actual experiences; writes our own biography; ..."
6. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1915)
"This may be called reminiscence or personal memory; but there is a large class
of cases in which memory is impersonal. What is remembered in these instances ..."
7. The Ethical Aspect of Lotze's Metaphysics by Vida Frank Moore (1901)
"... the resemblance of an actual intuition, with an image which is the result of
a previous intuition. The element of identity depends upon personal memory, ..."
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