nonsense syllable

any three-letter nonword used in learning and memory research to study learning of items that do not already have meaning or associations with other information in memory. See also consonant trigram. [introduced in 1885 by Hermann Ebbinghaus]

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February 23rd 2025

self-denial

n. the act of suppressing desires and forgoing satisfactions.