cryptamnesia
Syllables: crypt·a·mnes·iaUK/ˌkɹɪp.təmˈniː.zi.ə/US/ˌkɹɪp.təmˈni.ʒi.ə/
cryptamnesia is the alternative form of cryptomnesia.
Meaning of cryptomnesia
Noun
cryptomnesia (countable and uncountable, plural cryptomnesias)
- The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; (countable) an instance of this. Contrast cryptaesthesia.
- All the witnesses of Mlle. [Hélène] Smith's Hindoo somnambulisms who are of the same opinion on that subject (several refrain from having any) unite in seeing in it a curious phenomenon of cryptomnesia, of reappearances of memories profoundly buried beneath the normal waking state, together with an...1900, Th[éodore] Flournoy, “The Hindoo Cycle”, in Daniel B. Vermilye, transl., From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper &...
Forms of cryptamnesia
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Origin of cryptamnesia
From crypt- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) + amnesia; see further at cryptomnesia.
Words that rhyme with cryptamnesia
Questions about cryptamnesia
- What is cryptamnesia the alternative form of?
- Cryptamnesia is the alternative form of cryptomnesia.
- How do you pronounce cryptamnesia?
- Cryptamnesia is pronounced /ˌkɹɪp.təmˈniː.zi.ə/ (UK).
Words near cryptamnesia in the dictionary
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