Cryptomnesia

//ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.zi.ə//

Synonyms for "cryptomnesia"

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Translations

23 translations across 23 languages.

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Arabic

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  • استرجاع إبداعي noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Armenian

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  • կրիպտոմնեզիա noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Asturian

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  • criptomnesia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Azerbaijani

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  • kriptomneziya noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Catalan

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  • criptomnèsia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Danish

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  • kryptomnesi noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Finnish

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  • kryptomnesia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

French

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  • cryptomnésie noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

German

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  • Kryptomnesie noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Hebrew

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  • קריפטומנזיה noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Indonesian

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  • kriptomnesia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Japanese

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  • クリプトムネジア noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Macedonian

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  • криптомне́зија noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Persian

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  • کریپتومنسیا noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Polish

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  • kryptomnezja noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Portuguese

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  • criptomnésia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Romanian

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  • criptomnezie noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Russian

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  • криптомнези́я noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Slovene

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  • kryptomnézia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Spanish

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  • criptomnesia noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Tajik

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  • криптомнезия noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Turkish

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  • kriptomnezi noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Ukrainian

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  • криптомнезія noun (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this)

Sample sentences

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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 indeterminate amount of imaginative exaggeration upon the canvas of actual facts. But by this name of cryptomnesia or resurrection of latent memories, two singularly different things are understood.

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

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The path analysis suggests that cryptomnesia is rooted in a lack of trusting relationships. […] This lack of trust leads to feelings of anomie and anxiety that make the individual more likely to construct false memories out of information stored in the unconscious mind. People who think in this way are susceptible to belief in conspiracy theories, since these theories help them to make sense of an otherwise incoherent world.

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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.

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