Why this word is great
PARAMNESIA — [Noun] A disorder of memory marked by confusion between real and imagined experiences, or the sudden blankness where familiar words should be. From New Latin paramnesia, combining para- ("beside, abnormal") and amnesia ("forgetfulness"), from Greek mnēsis ("memory"). Unlike "déjà vu" (which tricks you into feeling repetition) or "confabulation" (which invents to fill gaps), paramnesia is the eerie slippage between lived and dreamed. It is the childhood birthday you swear happened in a house you never visited, the face of a stranger that lingers with the weight of a forgotten lover, or the simple word "apple" suddenly foreign on your tongue—proof that memory is not a vault but a shifting story, half-true and endlessly revised.