misrecalls
Gets memory incorrect
Misrecalls is the third-person singular present tense of misrecall, meaning to remember something incorrectly or inaccurately.
When someone misrecalls an event, they retrieve it from memory with errors—getting details wrong, confusing sequences, or blending separate experiences together.
She misrecalls the conversation as hostile, though witnesses describe it as civil.
The term appears frequently in psychology and legal contexts where the reliability of memory is at issue.
Recalls events inaccurately
- false memoryBelieved but fictional recall
- confabulationInvented memories believed true
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
conflation · embellishment · reconstruction · suggestion · implantation · source confusion · blending · contamination
Failing to retain memories
- amnesiaPathological loss of recall
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
loss · blank · gap · hole · incompleteness · fragmentation · haziness · vagueness
Wrong action or decision
- inaccuracyLack of precision
- slipMinor error or misstep
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
mix-up · confusion · transposition · substitution · omission · insertion · reversal · distortion
Mind's retention capacity
- retrievalAct of getting back
- encodingConverting data to format
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
recognition · hippocampus · episodic · autobiographical · semantic · working memory · long-term · short-term
misremembers
Recalls events inaccurately
- false memoryBelieved but fictional recall
- confabulationInvented memories believed true
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
misattribution · conflation · embellishment · reconstruction · suggestion · implantation · source confusion · blending · contamination · schema
forgetting
Failing to retain memories
fading · loss · blank · gap · hole · incompleteness · fragmentation · haziness · vagueness · dimness
mistake
Wrong action or decision
- inaccuracyLack of precision
- slipMinor error or misstep
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
blunder · mix-up · confusion · transposition · substitution · omission · insertion · reversal · distortion · garbling
memory
Mind's retention capacity
consolidation · recognition · hippocampus · episodic · autobiographical · semantic · working memory · long-term · short-term · interference