Talk:kleptomnesia

RFV discussion: September 2022–February 2023

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kleptomnesia

A new entry, with two senses: "A psychological disorder in which people steal things without any memory of the theft" and "Generating an idea that you believe is novel, but in fact was created by someone else". I can see sense 2 mentioned (not really used) in a small handful of books, but it seems to be an invented word without real currency. Sense 1 might not exist at all. Equinox ◑ 17:31, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Added three citations that are all basically the same sentence with slightly different wording. 98.170.164.88 23:50, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

(You've added 3 cites to sense #2. Sense #1 is still cite-less.) Thanks for your work: I am, however, not at all happy with the fact that all three citations use the word in quotation marks as a coinage or neologism. We're really scraping the barrel. Equinox ◑ 23:52, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Sense 1 is certainly plausible - "I don't remember" is probably the #1 excuse when people get found out for dishonesty (including theft etc). That being said, if we can't find anything for it we'll just have to stick to terms like narcissist and shithead. Theknightwho (talk) 00:54, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

There’s also this from the BBC[1] which could be thought of as a bit ‘mentiony’ as it uses the word only to immediately define it but doesn’t put it in quotation marks. There are a huge number of tweets using the word kleptomnesia too. Overlordnat1 (talk) 01:37, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

That article doesn't even include the word. It does use cryptomnesia, however. 98.170.164.88 23:02, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Oops! That must be my biggest brain fart of the year but I’d still maintain that sense 2 of this word should scrape through based on the existing quotes. Sense 1 seems much harder to justify, though.Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:39, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

RFV Passed for sense 2. Ioaxxere (talk) 22:41, 9 February 2023 (UTC)