race memory

English

Noun

race memory (countable and uncountable, plural race memories)

1. (psychology) A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.

Synonyms

• genetic memory
• racial memory

See also

• Race memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• memory care