Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable)The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.

    Memetik

    меме́тикаmemétika

  2. (uncountable)The study of information or other entity that self-propagates through a medium, often via a form of sensory input, in a manner comparable to a virus.

More definitions
  • a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution.

Translations

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Origin

Blend of meme + genetics.

Blend of meme + genetics.

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Word family

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See also

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