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Selective memory
Noun
Word Frequency:
0.1
Definitions
1.
Noun
The ability to retrieve certain facts and events but not others.
2.
Noun
An ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient, embarrassing, or disadvantageous.
Synonyms
memory
paramnesia
working memory
brain freeze
cryptomnesia
retention
short-term memory
mind
irreminiscence
cryptamnesia
mental reservation
pseudoreminiscence
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