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n. - (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality.

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  • This "paramnesia" theory suggests that the original event was somehow linked to distress and was being suppressed from conscious recognition, no longer accessible to memory.
  • From a Wikipedia article on reduplicative paramnesia I've just created.
  • She told me her name but paramnesia is odd: recognition is present but recall can't just be switched on like that.
  • Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been...
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