paramnesia
Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.
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How to use paramnesia in a sentence
Wigand and Maudsley think they see in paramnesia a simultaneous functioning of both relations.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossIndeed, Krpelin asserts that paramnesia occurs only under normal circumstances.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossIt will perhaps be proper not to reduce all the phenomena of paramnesia to the same conditions.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossIt may be that Leibnitz meant paramnesia with his perceptiones insensibiles.
Criminal Psychology | Hans Gross
British Dictionary definitions for paramnesia
/ (ˌpæræmˈniːzɪə) /
psychiatry a disorder of the memory or the faculty of recognition in which dreams may be confused with reality
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