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PARAMNESIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paramnesia mean?
• PARAMNESIA (noun)
The noun PARAMNESIA has 1 sense:
1. (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
Familiarity information: PARAMNESIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("paramnesia" is a kind of...):
cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
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