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SELECTIVE AMNESIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember
Example:
why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("selective amnesia" is a kind of...):
amnesia; blackout; memory loss (partial or total loss of memory)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "selective amnesia"):
posthypnotic amnesia (selective amnesia after being in a hypnotic state of events occurring during hypnosis or of information designated by the hypnotist)
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