Etymology

kleptomnesia

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Today it means: The situation where a person comes up with an idea that they believe to be original, but which was in fact created by someone else and previously encountered by the person. Full definition →

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Coined by Dan Gilbert in or before 1999.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.