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paramnesia
\par-am-NEE-zhuh\
noun
1. Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
2. the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.
Quotes
The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was
characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a
number of things about it.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961
Origin
Paramnesia is a New Latin construction that entered English in the
late 1800s. It derives from the Greek roots pará meaning "beside;
beyond" and amnēstía meaning "oblivion."

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