postmemory
English
noun
Definitions
- A relationship that people of subsequent generations bear to the trauma of their forebears, which they cannot directly remember but rather know through stories, imagery, and behaviour.
Etymology
Prefix from English memory.
Origin
English
memory
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- memoried English
- memorist English
- memory English
- memory-ridden English
- memorycide English
- memoryful English
- memoryless English
- metamemory English
- multimemory English
- nonmemory English
- pseudomemory English
- thermomemory English
- メモリ Japanese
- メモリー Japanese
- 메모리 Korean
- memori Tok Pisin
- memorie xno