n. The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The art of memory; a method for improving the memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The art of improving or developing memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist or improve the memory. Also mnemonic.
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n. a method or system for improving the memory
Word Usage
"The art of mnemonics is insufficiently taught, and when practised by novices is apt to lead to confusion: witness the crude prep. -school chestnut about Mrs. Lummock and Mrs. Kelly."