Cryptamnesia

//ˌkɹɪp.təmˈniː.zi.ə// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of cryptomnesia. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

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

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

Etymology

From crypt- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) + amnesia; see further at cryptomnesia.

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