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SELECTIVE AMNESIA

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• SELECTIVE AMNESIA (noun)
The noun SELECTIVE AMNESIA has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: SELECTIVE AMNESIA used as a noun is very rare.

• SELECTIVE AMNESIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

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

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)

"No news is good news."
(English proverb)
"Out of sight, out of mind."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"Whoever works, he will eat."
(Armenian proverb)
"Pulled too far, a rope ends up breaking."
(Corsican proverb)

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