Meanings
plural hypermnesias
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesAn elevated level of memory recall.
Near-synonym: total recall
Synonyms: total recall
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn elevated level of memory recall.
Origin
From hyper- + -mnesia, on the model of amnesia.
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