SELECTIVE AMNESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does selective amnesia mean? 

• SELECTIVE AMNESIA (noun)
  The noun SELECTIVE AMNESIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SELECTIVE AMNESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELECTIVE AMNESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?

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)