Anecdote vs Memory - What's the difference?
anecdote | memory |
A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
A previously untold secret account of an incident.
(uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
* (rfdate) Albert Schweitzer
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
(attributive, of a material) which returns to its original
(obsolete) A memorial.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between anecdote and memory
is that anecdote is a short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting while memory is the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.anecdote
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(wikipedia anecdote)Alternative forms
* anecdota * anecdoton (Grecian) * anecdotumNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* anecdotage * anecdotal * anecdotalism * anecdotally * anecdotard * anecdotarian * anecdoter * anecdotic * anecdotical * anecdotish (rare) * anecdotist * anecdotive (rare) * anecdotographermemory
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Alternative forms
* memorie (archaic)Noun
- Memory is a facility common to all animals.
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .
- I have no memory of that event.
- This data passes from the CPU to the memory .
- in recent memory'''''; ''in living '''memory
- These weeds are memories of those worser hours.