SELECTIVE AMNESIA

Pronunciation (US):

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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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