paramnesia.

A disturbance of memory in which recollection, recognition, or familiarity is inaccurate.

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Words that belong together

• a reported paramnesia
• disturbances described as paramnesia

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The report used paramnesia for the patient’s persistent false familiarity.

In the novel, paramnesia made the visitor certain she had witnessed a death that had not yet occurred.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; paramnesias for distinct forms or episodes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.