selective amnesia

1. 1.

   amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember

   “why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?”

   Broaderamnesia

   Narrowerposthypnotic amnesia

Questions about selective amnesia

What does selective amnesia mean?

selective amnesia means "amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember".

Is selective amnesia a common word?

selective amnesia 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.