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Selective Amnesia

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Noun

1. selective amnesia

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

Example Sentences:
'why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Selective Amnesia

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noun
1. euphemistic
the deliberate forgetting of something
Mr Green, suffering from selective amnesia about his role in the affair, was contradicted in nearly every instance by other witnesses.
It looks like a case of selective amnesia.
Was this a case of selective amnesia or lying?
2. psychology
an inability to remember certain types of event
The doctors called it selective amnesia.

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