funicity

noun

1. An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.

   uncountable

   For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.

2. The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.

   uncountable

   In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry funicity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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