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antimnemonic en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + mnemonic.

Meanings

  1. Difficult to remember, often intentionally so.
    • Features that make a password good tend to make it antimnemonic as well, which is bad because a password should be memorized rather than written down.
    • I have translated the symbols used by these German authors, which are antimnemonic for readers of English, to the initial letters... 1998, Arthur Robert Jensen, The g factor: the science of mental ability:

Forms

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more antimnemonic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most antimnemonic Degree=Sup lexicographic