Is there a more common word than "mnemonicization" [closed]
What's the word for the process of creating a mnemonic?
I coined (? did I?) the verb "to mnemonicize" and the noun "mnemonicization"
Google shows so few results for these, 25 results for "mnemonicization" and 0 for "mnemonicisation".
I am now hunting for established words that may be more common.
The first usage of mnemonicize and mnemonicization I can track down appears in an academic article, Ross, R.J. (1998). The memorial culture of Early Modern English lawyers: Memory as keyword, shelter, and identity, 1560-1640. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 10(2):
The golden chain's guarantee of divinely ordained harmony in the arts, for example, becomes an anchor of memory, its original purposes overlaid, mnemonicized, so to speak. [...] Law's "reason," its foundation and justification, underwent a similar metamorphosis or mnemonicization.
It has some features of other academic terminology - Greco-Latin origin, verbing a noun, making a highly technical point (mnemonicize as making a mnemonic) rather than going for something more mistakeable (like memorize, which need not involve a mnemonic at all).
A slightly simpler and more established word would be mnemonize, which dates back to the 1830s. It isn't common - it's marked rare by the OED - but I really don't know of anything more common that fits exactly what you need (mnemonize, v.):
rare. transitive. To remember or express by means of a mnemonic formula.
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1988 Re: Replacing the Desktop Metaphor in comp.windows.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Dec. The desktop metaphor attempted to solve one perceived problem with the then current generation of computers, namely replacing the often cryptic commands of command line driven operating environments with icons which were mentally easy to mnemonize.