noun
paramnesia; memory error
Technical term in psychology and medicine for a distortion of memory where reality and fantasy are confused. Not an everyday word.
記憶錯誤は、実際の経験と想像が混同される現象です。
Paramnesia is a phenomenon in which real experiences and imagination become confused.
記憶違い is a general term for a simple memory mistake, while 記憶錯誤 is a clinical term for a more complex distortion of memory.
Compound of 記憶 (memory) and 錯誤 (error, mistake). The term is a direct translation of the English 'paramnesia'.