The act of committing something to memory or memorizing.(noun)
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Use "memorization" in a sentence
"In education, this introduced the concept that rote memorization is not as effective a learning tool as problem solving."
"The delightfully pointless nature of the contest, combined with the sweet reward, awakened me to the pleasures of random short-term memorization."
"Implicit in this amazing and enviable capacity for memorization is the understanding the poem, like the folk song or the popular song is a source of pleasure, reflection and intellectual stimulus."