paramnesia
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prettygoodwordparamnesia (par-am-NEE-zhuh) - n., a disorder of memory in which objective and subjective reality are confused, esp. either false recollection of events that have never occurred or déjà vu.
Dictionaries, even medical ones, vary over exactly what this covers, which suggests to me that it's not a common term of art in medicine. The above is my attempt at a synthesis of definitions found. Coined in 1888 on the model of amnesia, only using para- in the sense of alongside or defective instead of a-, not on the stem meaning memory.
---L.
Dictionaries, even medical ones, vary over exactly what this covers, which suggests to me that it's not a common term of art in medicine. The above is my attempt at a synthesis of definitions found. Coined in 1888 on the model of amnesia, only using para- in the sense of alongside or defective instead of a-, not on the stem meaning memory.
---L.
