paramnesia

1. 1.

   (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality

   Broadercognitive state

   psychiatry

Other forms of paramnesia

plural

paramnesias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paramnesia

What does paramnesia mean?

paramnesia means "(psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality".

How many syllables are in paramnesia?

paramnesia has 5 syllables: pa-ram-ne-si-a. The stress falls on "ne".

Is paramnesia a common word?

paramnesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.