cryptomnésie
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French
Etymology
From crypto- + amnésie, coined by Swiss psychologist Théodore Flournoy in his work Des Indes à la planète Mars (From India to the Planet Mars, 1899 or 1900).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cryptomnésie f (plural cryptomnésies)
- cryptomnesia (phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience)
References
- ^ 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], : , 1899 or 1900.
Further reading
- “cryptomnésie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.