cryptomnesia
English
Etymology
From crypto- (“hidden”) + (a)mnesia, modelled after French cryptomnésie,[1] which was coined by the Swiss psychologist Théodore Flournoy (1854–1920) in his work Des Indes à la planète Mars (From India to the Planet Mars, 1899 or 1900).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.zi.ə/, /-ʒə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɹɪp.təmˈni.ʒi.ə/, /-ʒə/, /-zi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːziə
- Hyphenation: cryp‧to‧mnes‧ia
Noun
cryptomnesia (uncountable)
- (chiefly psychology) The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience.
- 1900, Th[éodore] Flournoy, “The Hindoo Cycle”, in Daniel B. Vermilye, transl., From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 276:
- All the witnesses of Mlle. Smith's Hindoo somnambulisms who are of the same opinion on that subject (several refrain from having any) unite in seeing in it a curious phenomenon of cryptomnesia, of reappearances of memories profoundly buried beneath the normal waking state, together with an indeterminate amount of imaginative exaggeration upon the canvas of actual facts. But by this name of cryptomnesia or resurrection of latent memories, two singularly different things are understood.
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Translations
phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience
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References
- ^ “cryptomnesia, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “cryptomnesia, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Des Indes à la planète Mars : Etude sur un cas de somnambulisme avec glossolalie : Avec 44 figures [From India to the Planet Mars: Study of a Case of Sleepwalking with Glossolalia: With 44 Figures], [Geneva; Paris?]: [Atar Fischbacher?], 1899 or 1900.
Further reading
- cryptomnesia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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