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race memory
n. (context psychology English) A memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of ones ancestors
Usage examples of "race memory".
Lunzie felt the crowing over race memory and other characteristics to be a sort of inferiority complex in itself, and let the comments pass without reply.
Even the hoon and urs arrived too late to know them at their prime, when glavers were said to have been mighty intellects, with a talent for deep race memory.
And before that- well, perhaps even the race memory of their kind had lost the record of those dim, distant ages.
Even in my short life I had learned as much as that--or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.