rememberers
Those who retain
Rememberers are people who remember—those who retain and recall information, experiences, or the past.
The word often carries weight beyond mere memory, suggesting people who preserve what others might forget: The old women were the rememberers, keeping alive stories no one else could tell.
It can also describe those with particularly strong memories: Some of us are forgetters; she was always one of the rememberers.
Those who record events
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- historiansScholars of the past
- genealogistsThose who study lineages
- keepersThose who maintain
custodians · preservers · documenters · scribes · griots
Those who retrieve memories
- retainersUpfront professional fees
- encodersSignal-to-code converters
- retrieversDogs bred for returning
- memorizersThose who retain information
Those who give testimony
- eyewitnessesPeople who directly observed
- corroboratorsThose who confirm evidence
- deponentsThose who give depositions
- truth-tellersThose who state facts
chroniclers
Those who record events
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- historiansScholars of the past
- genealogistsThose who study lineages
keepers · custodians · preservers · documenters · scribes · griots
mourners
Those lamenting a death
recallers
Those who retrieve memories
- retainersUpfront professional fees
- encodersSignal-to-code converters
- retrieversDogs bred for returning
yearners
Those who deeply crave
- sentimentalistsThose prone to nostalgia
testifiers
Those who give testimony
- eyewitnessesPeople who directly observed
- corroboratorsThose who confirm evidence
- deponentsThose who give depositions
rememberersforgetters
Those who fail to retain
amnesiacs · erasers · deniers · suppressors · revisionists
- always rememberedKept in mind perpetually
- fondly rememberedRecalled with warm feeling