I want to say about someone that he is "not forgetful" or probably "easy to remember things, hard to forget". But I feel like it's too mouthful, and English probably has the term for this, but I don't know how to search for things like this. Can you help me what is the term for "not forgetful"? Thanks.
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Yes, a vocal song can have an instrumental version, in which the lyrics are missing. Instrumental can mean two things:
- a "karaoke" version with the vocals removed; or
- a song which was written without vocals in the first place.
Incidentally, some people insist a "song" must have vocals. These people use the word "piece" to refer to a song without singing, which is traditional and etymologically correct. In common use, people use "song" to refer to instrumental songs as well.
How is this relevant? If you're talking about an instrumental metal group or the instrumental version of a pop song, people say "instrumental song"; if you're talking about classical music with no singing, people usually say "piece".
A "backing track" is a track without all the instruments for a musician to play over, which is somewhat different. A guitarist may have a backing track consisting of bass and drums that they play over.
I don't believe we have a single English word for it. There is a term, but it isn't widely known.
It is called dimorphous expression, or "cute aggression" by psychologists and defined as "superficially aggressive behaviour caused by seeing something cute, such as a human baby or young animal". It is not real "aggression", but a primal feeling you want to squeeze them harder than you should, or perhaps bite them.
Wikipedia says of this behaviour:
"People experiencing cute aggression may grit their teeth, clench their fists, or feel the urge to pinch and squeeze something they consider cute, while not actually causing or intending to cause any harm."
I have never heard these terms used in everyday speech. If you were to use the term you would likely have to explain it. Most people would just express how they were feeling by description, perhaps using adjectives or superlatives.
A very commonly used expression is:
He/she is so cute I could just eat them up!
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The most common ways to say that someone is good at remembering things include:
Adjectives such as "mindful" are rarely good substitutes.
"Mindful" means keeping something in mind, and is almost always followed by a description of the thing:
"Attentive" means either that someone listens well (for example, in class) or that they pay attention to particular things:
"Retentive" most often describes memory rather than a person ("she has a retentive memory"), but ODO also gives this example: