cryptomnesia

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.zi.ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.ʒə/
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• General-American: /ˌkɹɪp.təmˈni.ʒi.ə/
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• General-American: /-ʒə/
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• General-American: /-zi.ə/
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• rhymes with -iːziə
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From crypto- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) + (a)mnesia, modelled after French cryptomnésie, which was coined by Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist Théodore Flournoy (1854–1920) in his work Des Indes à la planète Mars (From India to the Planet Mars, 1899 or 1900). The English word was probably first used in the 1900 translation of Flournoy’s work: see the quotation.

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: استرجاع إبداعي — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Armenian: կրիպտոմնեզիա (kriptomnezia) — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Asturian: criptomnesia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Azerbaijani: kriptomneziya — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Catalan: criptomnèsia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Danish: kryptomnesi — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Finnish: kryptomnesia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• French: cryptomnésie — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• German: Kryptomnesie — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Hebrew: קריפטומנזיה — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Indonesian: kriptomnesia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Japanese: クリプトムネジア (kuriputomunejia) — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Macedonian: криптомне́зија (kriptomnézija) — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Persian: کریپتومنسیا — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Polish: kryptomnezja — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Portuguese: criptomnésia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Romanian: criptomnezie — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Russian: криптомнези́я (kriptomnezíja) — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Slovene: kryptomnézia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Spanish: criptomnesia — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Tajik: криптомнезия (kriptomneziya) — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Turkish: kriptomnezi — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this
• Ukrainian: криптомнезія (kryptomnezija) — phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this