noun
promnesia
Promnesia (noun) means Déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.
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Déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.
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Etymology
Coined by philologist and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901) from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “pre-, before”) + μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) + -ία (-ía) on the model of amnesia, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, mind”). Compare Greek προμνησία (promnisía).
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"promnesia" (noun) means déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.