Etymology

Rashomon effect

Today it means: The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. Full definition →

Japanese 羅生門
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  1. Japanese · derived from羅生門
  2. English todayRashomon effect

From Japanese 羅生門 (rashōmon), after Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

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