Usually means: Unconscious plagiarism of forgotten sources.
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  1. cryptomnesia: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Cryptomnesia, cryptomnesia: Wordnik
  3. cryptomnesia: Wiktionary
  4. cryptomnesia: Dictionary.com
  5. Cryptomnesia (album), Cryptomnesia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. cryptomnesia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cryptomnesia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cryptomnesia: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. cryptomnesia: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cryptomnesia)

noun:  (chiefly psychology, uncountable) The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; (countable) an instance of this.

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