paramnesia

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  1. noun A distortion of memory in which fantasy and objective experience are confused.
  2. noun An inability to recall the meanings of common words.

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  • This Ninth Circuit case may be limited to its colorful yet not shocking facts. paramnesia here: —  What About Paris?
  • Many hypnotherapeutic techniques such as amnesia, hypermnesia, progression, paramnesia, automatic writing, dream induction, regression, production of experimental conflicts and crystal or mirror gazing require a somnambulistic state. —  A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
  • WAC? is experiencing profound paramnesia here. —  What About Paris?
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek παρά, beside, + μνησι-, only in comp., remembering, from μιμνήσκειν, remind: see amnesia.
 

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