paramnesia
Americannoun
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Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
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the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.
noun
Etymology
Origin of paramnesia
Example Sentences
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In another case of Morvan’s, the patient reported reduplicative paramnesia; he firmly believed that his home had been copied by a stranger and that the replica existed 40 miles away.
From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2013
The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Memory illusion, or paramnesia, consists in the illusory opinion of having experienced, seen, or heard something, although there has been no such experience, vision, or sound.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
Wigand and Maudsley think they see in paramnesia a simultaneous functioning of both relations.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
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