cryptomnesia
UK /ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.zi.ə/US /ˌkɹɪp.təmˈni.ʒi.ə/
noun1
- The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; (countable) an instance of this. Contrast cryptaesthesia.
- How much is cryptamnesia-confabulation, how much frontal-lobe indifference-equalisation, how much some strange schizophrenic disintegration and shattering-flattening? — 1981
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cryptomnesias