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Recent vs Ecmnesia - What's the difference?

recent | ecmnesia |

As an adjective recent

is having happened a short while ago.

As a noun ecmnesia is

a form of amnesia in which the patient can recall older events but not recent ones.

recent

English

Adjective

(more)
  • Having happened a short while ago.
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  • Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
  • Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
    • The cause has several hundred recent donors.
    I met three recent graduates at the conference.

    Derived terms

    * recently * recent memory

    Anagrams

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    ecmnesia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A form of amnesia in which the patient can recall older events but not recent ones.
  • * 1913 , Alfred Ernest Jones, Papers on Psycho-Analysis
    • A classical instance of ecmnesia is the celebrated case of Louis V., studied by many observers.