cryptomnesia

== English == === Etymology === From crypto- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) +‎ (a)mnesia, modelled after French cryptomnésie, which was coined by Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist Théodore Flournoy (1854–1920) in his work Des Indes à la planète Mars (From India to the Planet Mars, 1899 or 1900). The English word was probably first used in the 1900 translation of Flournoy’s work: see the quotation. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.zi.ə/, /ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.ʒə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɹɪp.təmˈni.ʒi.ə/, /-ʒə/, /-zi.ə/ Rhymes: -iːziə Hyphenation: cryp‧to‧mnes‧ia === Noun === cryptomnesia (countable and uncountable, plural cryptomnesias) (chiefly psychology, 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. [from 1900] ==== Alternative forms ==== cryptamnesia ==== Hypernyms ==== cryptopsychism ==== Coordinate terms ==== cryptaesthesia ==== Derived terms ==== cryptomnesic cryptomnesically ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === cryptomnesia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia