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CRYPTOMNESIA
Definition of CRYPTOMNESIA
noun
The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this. Contrast cryptaesthesia.
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Where it comes from
From crypto- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) + (a)mnesia, modelled after French cryptomnésie, which was coined by Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist Théodore Flournoy (1854–1920) in his work Des Indes à la planète Mars (From India to the Planet Mars, 1899 or 1900). The English word was probably first used in the 1900 translation of Flournoy’s work: see the quotation.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,974)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRYPTOMNESIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 136, 3 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRYPTOMNESIA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACEIMNOPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found CRYPTOMNESIA?
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