cryptomnésie

French

Etymology

From crypto- +‎ amnésie, coined by Swiss psychologist Théodore Flournoy in his work Des Indes à la planète Mars (From India to the Planet Mars, 1899 or 1900).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁip.tɔm.ne.zi/

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Noun

cryptomnésie f (plural cryptomnésies)

1. cryptomnesia (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience)

Further reading

• “cryptomnésie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.