long memory
Never forgets slights
A long memory is the capacity to remember events, grievances, or slights for an extended time.
Someone with a long memory doesn't forget easily—especially wrongs done to them: She has a long memory for betrayal.
The phrase often carries a warning: cross this person and they'll remember.
Elephants proverbially have long memories.
Persistent bitter displeasure
- bitternessSharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- vendettaProlonged retaliatory conflict
- grievanceFormal claim of unfairness
- score-settlingAvenging past grievances
animosity · revenge · old wounds · bad blood · ill will · spite · rancor · enmity
Continued holding or possession
- recallMemory retrieval act
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- total recallComplete, perfect remembrance
- eideticPerfectly retaining mental images
nostalgia · reminiscence · unforgettable · remembering · never forgets
Stored historical documents
- recordsStored data or albums
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- cultural heritageInherited collective traditions
- tribal historyA people's collective past
ancestral wisdom · folklore · legacy · tradition · chronicle · lineage · documentation · lore
resentment
Persistent bitter displeasure
- bitternessSharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- vendettaProlonged retaliatory conflict
- grievanceFormal claim of unfairness
score-settling · animosity · revenge · old wounds · bad blood · ill will · spite · rancor · enmity · payback
retention
Continued holding or possession
- recallMemory retrieval act
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- total recallComplete, perfect remembrance
eidetic · nostalgia · reminiscence · unforgettable · remembering · never forgets
archives
Stored historical documents
- recordsStored data or albums
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- cultural heritageInherited collective traditions
tribal history · ancestral wisdom · folklore · legacy · tradition · chronicle · lineage · documentation · lore · storytelling
- resentmentresentful, grudge, bitterness, rancor, spite
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
long memoryshort memory
forgetfulness · poor memory · goldfish memory · memory like a sieve · amnesia
long memoryforgive and forget
Absolve and dismiss resentment
forgiveness · letting go · clean slate · moving on · magnanimity
long memoryshort-sightedness
Inability to see distant objects clearly
forward-looking · willful ignorance · cultural amnesia · presentism
long, longer, longest, longish, longing, longingly, length, lengthen, lengthening