Crossword clues for mnemonist
Wiktionary
n. someone able to perform feats of memory, especially by utilizing mnemonic techniques
WordNet
n. an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory
Wikipedia
The title mnemonist (derived from the term mnemonic) refers to an individual with the ability to remember and recall unusually long lists of data, such as unfamiliar names, lists of numbers, entries in books, etc. Mnemonists may have superior innate ability to recall or remember, or may use techniques such as the method of loci.
Usage examples of "mnemonist".
The Mnemonist stirred on his protective pallet, moving dreamlike in counterpoint to the thoughts that were more real than the room and the cocoon of flesh that enclosed them.
The Mnemonist was like a spider at the heart of a web he had not spun.
The spidery gray body of the Mnemonist stirred with the chemical echoes that reverberated through his old veins.
And even if there were, the Mnemonist knew that they would be useless for his purpose, for they would be too much in love with living to settle for secondhand and thirdhand experience on his pallet.
And yet, the Mnemonist reflected, he had spent a lifetime caring for them, doing for them.
The Mnemonist flinched as if he, too, sensed the imminence of poisoned arrows.
The Mnemonist also could not imagine anyone coming through that disused door into this skull of a room where dreams and memories swam like misshapen fish and nibbled on the cellular fragments that were all that was left of his humanity.
Vygotsky, Luria - whose book The Mind of a Mnemonist I have already discussed -Anokhin, Rubinstein and Beritashvili are among the most significant of these figures.
We have records from the past—descriptions of lightning calculators, musicians capable of improvising without a wrong note for hours on end, mnemonists who commited whole books to memory by reading them through once.