as in memory
a particular act or instance of recalling or the thing remembered
an extended, highly fruitful anamnesis that was triggered by the simple act of biting into a madeleine
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Recent Examples of anamnesis
The white horse and classic car tricked out with chandeliers are obviously fantastic; more coded are the homages to the 2000s, which the twenty-somethings involved seem to have anamnesis for.
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Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anamnesis
Noun
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The testing conducted for the paper was performed with an Nvidia A100 GPU with 40 gigabytes of memory.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Aug. 2025
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So, pictures came about, memories of girls who were kind of stuck in their position in the family, in the world, in their femininity.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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She’s rocked to learn that her recollection of those crucial details is wrong.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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In the days since Lovell’s passing, many Lake Forest residents offered their recollections of individual encounters with Lovell.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Anamnesis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anamnesis. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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