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mnemophobia

mnemophobia noun: the fear of one's own memories.

Noun

mnemophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The fear of one's own memories.
    • Complicating matters, some people suffer from Mnemophobia, the fear of memories. Every time they try to remember when it was they first became phobic, they become even more phobic!1985, John Ficarra, The Mad Book of Fears and Phobias, New York, NY: Warner Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page
    • Anyone enduring mnemophobia would endure painful psychoanalysis treatment when asked to recall when they first experience mnemophobia and subsequent triggers for the condition - it is the fear of experiencing memories.2014, Richard O Smith, Man with His Head in the Clouds: James Sadler: the First Englishman to Fly, Oxford: Signal Books, →ISBN, page 97

Origin of mnemophobia

From mnemo- (“memory”) + -phobia (“fear”).

Questions about mnemophobia

What does mnemophobia mean?
Mnemophobia means the fear of one's own memories.
What part of speech is mnemophobia?
Mnemophobia is a noun.

Words near mnemophobia in the dictionary

  1. mnemonize
  2. mnemonized
  3. mnemonizes
  4. mnemonizing
  5. mnemons
  6. mnemophobia
  7. Mnemosyne
  8. mnemotactic
  9. mnemotaxis
  10. mnemotechnic
  11. mnemotechnical

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