memoriousness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From memorious +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

memoriousness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being memorious; commemoration, remembrance.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Roman memoriousness was part celebration, part propitiation.
    • 2014, John Sutherland, How to be Well Read:
      Such memoriousness is too much for the human constitution.