funicity

The English word “funicity” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.

Etymology

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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