racial memory

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noun Psychology.

feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.

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Words nearby racial memory

racial, racialism, racialization, racialize, racial justice, racial memory, racial profiling, racial unconscious, racinage, Racine, racing

How to use racial memory in a sentence

No racial memory could have taught them; there were no tin cans a million years, not even a hundred years, ago.
The Brain|Alexander Blade
Besides, there was subconscious racial-memory instinct in friendship between man and dog.
Nightmare Planet|Murray Leinster
Besides, there was racial-memory rightness in friendship between men and dogs.
The Forgotten Planet|Murray Leinster
By some quirk of atavism, a certain portion of that early self's language had come down to him as a racial memory.
The Best Psychic Stories|Various

The inheritance of ancestral characteristics, according to this view, may be described as racial memory.
A Librarian's Open Shelf|Arthur E. Bostwick