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aphantasia

Polish translation: afantazja

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16:56 Dec 2, 2019
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Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Psychology
English term or phrase: aphantasia
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
The inability to form mental images of real or imaginary people, places, or things.

Example sentence(s):
  • The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a "blind mind's eye". Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best animators. BBC
  • Aphantasia, a term coined by Adam Zeman, a neurologist and professor of cognitive and behavioural neurology at Exeter University Medical School, describes people who are unable to visualise. It affects some 2 to 3 per cent of the population, or around 2million people in the UK. Daily Mail
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Polish translation:afantazja
Definition:
Afantazja to niezdolność do wyobrażania sobie i przywoływania obrazów oraz wspomnień.
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Definition from Charaktery - Magazyn Psychologiczny:
Afantazja to niezdolność do wyobrażania sobie i przywoływania obrazów oraz wspomnień.

Example sentence(s):
  • O fenomenie afantazji jako pierwszy rozwodził się w już 1880 roku sir Francis Galton. - Charaktery - Magazyn Psychologiczny  
  • Zapewne nigdy o tym nie słyszeliście, ale podobno jedna na pięćdziesiąt osób może mieć stan zwany afantazją. Przypadłość została niedawno oficjalnie rozpoznana i opisuje osoby, które nie potrafią stworzyć obrazu mentalnego. - Nauka.rocks  
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Local time: 07:55
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 12

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Yes  Rafal Piotrowski: The only possible and logical equivalent :)
17 hrs
Yes  KORNELIA ZWIÓR-HOŁENKO: https://www.google.com/search?q=afantazja&rlz=1C1EJFB_enPL77...
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