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memoryful en · ADJ · etymology 1

From memory + -ful.

(not-comparable) Equipped with a memory; capable of retaining information about what has happened before.
- The Guest Book has a horde of other memoryful signatures. 1909 May 14, The Circle and Success Magazine, page 281:
- Like a great many other Nova Scotia towns that make provision for the tourist, Annapolis, the rare, the old, the memoryful, has pleasant stopping places of homely atmosphere. 1920, The Mentor, volume 8, page 191:
- We give a broadly applicable expression for the work production of an information engine, generally modeled as a memoryful channel that communicates inputs to outputs as it interacts with an evolving environment. 2016, Alexander B. Boyd, Dibyendu Mandal, James P. Crutchfield, “Correlation-powered Information Engines and the Thermodynamics of Self-Correction”, in arXiv:

From memory + -ful.

(no-plural, rare) An amount that is held by the memory.
- Any visitor will soon have a memoryful of such images and experiences. 1965, Eugene Fodor, Fodor's Guide to India, page 97:
- […] the company of a group of young athletes: and this athletic principle included even the sprinkling of oddities (one of them a lame young hunchback with features of aquiline delicacy, who was cherished for a memoryful of sporting statistics) […] 1964, Anthologies of New Zealand writing, volume 2, page 129:
- He has everything: opera, love, friendship, a memoryful of adventures. 1982 June 14, Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 6, page 176: