19 November 2016

paramnesia

[par-am-nee-zhuh]

noun

1. Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
2. the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.

Origin of paramnesia

1885-1890; < New Latin; see par-, amnesia

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Examples from the Web for paramnesia

Historical Examples

Wigand and Maudsley think they see in paramnesia a simultaneous functioning of both relations.
Criminal Psychology
Hans Gross

Indeed, Krpelin asserts that paramnesia occurs only under normal circumstances.
Criminal Psychology
Hans Gross

It will perhaps be proper not to reduce all the phenomena of paramnesia to the same conditions.
Criminal Psychology
Hans Gross

Anagram

spare mania
Panama sire
Armenia asp
Asia arm pen
Iran mesa pa

Today’s quote

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On this day

19 November 1863 – President Lincoln delivers the ‘Gettysburg Address’ during the American Civil War, while dedicating the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech commenced with the now-famous words, ‘Four score and seven years ago …’, which was referring to the Declaration of Independence in 1777. The speech addressed equality, freedom and democracy being representative of all people.

19 November 2007 – share markets across the globe crashed, as the world entered the Global Financial Crisis.