Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named in 1994 after the West German Baader-Meinhof Group of the 1970s, when a commentator unexpectedly heard two references to the group within 24 hours.
Noun
[edit]Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (plural not attested)
- A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency.
Further reading
[edit]Baader-Meinhof phenomenon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia