promnesia

Meaning

Noun

• déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory

Origin

• (1843-1901) on the model of English amnesia via New Latin amnēsia, a learned borrowing from Koine Greek ἀμνησία. The essential components προ- + μνήμη, formed by analogy to Greek αμνησία, substituting prefix pro- for the privative a attached to a root from Ancient Greek μιμνήσκω, μνάομαι from Proto-Indo-European *men-. Compare Greek προμνησία.