funicity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation. uncountable
    — For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.
  2. The reflection of an object's own history in its current form. uncountable
    — In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.

词源

Coined by Viktor Weisskopf from the name of Ireneo Funes, a character who lost his ability to forget, in Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious (Funes el memorioso, 1942). See -ic, -ity.
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