Cryptamnesia

Quick meaning: Cryptamnesia is a noun meaning Alternative form of cryptomnesia.

Meaning

Alternative form of cryptomnesia.

Example Sentences

How much is cryptamnesia-confabulation, how much frontal-lobe indifference-equalisation, how much some strange schizophrenic disintegration and shattering-flattening?

And although [Sigmund] Freud claimed that others’ ideas were of no use to him unless they came at a time when he was ready for them, he proved enormously susceptible to their influence and even noted his own tendency to ‘cryptamnesia’, by which he ‘unconsciously’ contrived to forget his intellectual debts.

Word Forms

• cryptamnesias

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include redisappearance, re-identification, re-emergence, reappearing, reminisce, reminiscence.

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