Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Psychology A recalling to memory; recollection.
- n. Medicine The complete history recalled and recounted by a patient.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In psychology, the act or process of reproduction in memory; reminiscence.
- n. In rhetoric, a figure which consists in calling to remembrance something overlooked.
- n. In Platonic philosophy, the vague recollection of a state of existence preceding the present life. Is. Taylor.
- n. ln medicine, the account given by a patient or his friends of the history of his case up to the time when he is placed under the care of a physician.
Wiktionary
- n. The ability to recall past events; recollection.
- n. The medical history of a patient.
- n. The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one's authority.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A recalling to mind; recollection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
- n. the ability to recall past occurrences
Etymologies
- Greek anamnēsis, from anamimnēskein, anamnē-, to remind : ana-, ana- + mimnēskein, to recall; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Plato wrote that humanity could only know the 'real' world in the form of memories; by what he termed anamnesis, meaning the recovery of buried memories, both individual and collective.”
The Huffington Post: Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: The Need to Build a New Model
“The word anamnesis, then, gives us almost everything we need to know about the significance of this section to the book as a whole, to the ending, and to the Iron Council itself.”
“Pumped full of Sodium Pentathol, Dick answered the door to meet a girl from the pharmacy who was delivering his pain medications (if only they delivered now) and, upon seeing her golden fish pendant, experienced what he called 'anamnesis'.”
“The section is labelled an "anamnesis", a term that goes back to Plato and means a reminiscence or recollection, though it also has some meanings in religion and theosophy, and is even the title of a book by conservative philosopher Eric Voegelin.”
“It is my understanding that "anamnesis" means something more like "making present" than quite what we mean by remembrance.”
“Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science.”
“Socrates does not elaborate the anamnesis claim as much as we would like.”
“Plato's anamnesis solution sees inquiry as a kind of deep memory recall.”
“The phone was my anamnesis, in which I knew if I answered directly or if it was handed to me directly, my undivided attention was on demand and it felt either like I produce for these people or they would deny me the profit that was supposed to make my life whole.”
“A kind of platonic anamnesis, or reminiscence of former existence, it attempts to create and sustain a communal cultural memory in potentially hostile circumstances”
National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anamnesis’.
-
Rhetorical Devices
syllepsis, zeugma, trope, wellerism, anastrophe, anaphora, apostrophe, metonymy, chiasmus, antimetabole, syncope, open-list and 431 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Words
Different Words
collectress, tachygenesis, star-scattered, liquescent, hyemation, boggler, springal, domineering, emove, repugn, kea, pettah and 19 more...
-
::: I like :::
soliloquy, eros, agape, solipsism, palimpsest, fabulist, lore, raconteur, harbinger, anamnesis, sattvic, comprecation and 20 more...
-
-mnem-, -mnesia, -mnesis
memory
pgayed The word anamnesis is also used in immunology to describe the enhanced and more rapid neutralization of an antigen upon second exposure; in other words, it is the "retrieval" of an immune response. Dec 4, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM remembers his anamnesis with fondness May 26, 2010