recovered memory


recovered memory

noun

Definition of RECOVERED MEMORY

: a forgotten memory of a traumatic event (as sexual abuse) experienced typically during childhood and recalled many years later that is sometimes held to be an invalid or false remembrance generated by outside influence

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