hypermnesia

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English

Etymology

From hyper- + -mnesia, on the model of amnesia.

Noun

hypermnesia (countable and uncountable, plural hypermnesias)

  1. (psychology) An elevated level of memory recall.
    Coordinate terms: hypomnesia, amnesia
    Near-synonym: total recall

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