单词 | paramnesia |
释义 | paramnesian. Chiefly Psychology. Memory that is unreal, illusory, or distorted; spec. the phenomenon of déjà vu; an instance of this. Also: loss of memory for the meaning of words (disused rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > sense of re-experiencing paramnesia1888 déjà vu1903 promnesia1903 déjà lu1960 déjà entendu1965 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > memory disorders amnesia1786 paramnesia1888 ecmnesia1890 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 735 Several philosophers..have noticed that illusions of memory occur in dreams; and, judging from the writer's own experience, such phenomena are not uncommon. Several dreams illustrative of paramnesia have come to my notice. 1900 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 327/2 Paramnesia, loss of the memory of the meaning of words spoken or written. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 24 52 The word paramnesia as it occurs in this paper is used in its broader meaning and is applied not only to the phenomenon of apparent familiarity with something previously unknown, the déja vu of the French.., but to the whole group of errors or illusions of memory as usually distinguished from amnesias. 1922 C. S. Lewis Diary 25 Nov. (1991) 143 Just as I write these words I remember a great deal more emotion that [read than] I thought I did: possibly this is paramnesia. 1941 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 32 30 This paper is concerned with a class of experiences to which we shall give the title restricted paramnesias. These experiences, commonly described as feelings or impressions of familiarity, are associated with a local failure of recognition. 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xx. 202 The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain. 1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) v. 203 Paramnesia coalesces a still distinguishable past and present. 2001 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 22 Apr. g1 I was struck too by the horrified feeling, a kind of weird paramnesia, curious and startling and inexplicable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1888 |
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