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cryptomnesias

cryptomnesias is the plural of cryptomnesia.

Meaning of cryptomnesia

Noun

cryptomnesia (countable and uncountable, plural cryptomnesias)

  1. (uncountable) 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 &...

Questions about cryptomnesias

What is cryptomnesias the plural of?
Cryptomnesias is the plural of cryptomnesia.

Words near cryptomnesias in the dictionary

  1. cryptomillionaires
  2. cryptominer
  3. cryptominers
  4. cryptomining
  5. cryptomnesia
  6. cryptomnesias
  7. cryptomnesic
  8. cryptomnesically
  9. cryptomodule
  10. cryptomodules
  11. cryptomonad

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