英语词汇promnesia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

promnesia. Promnesia is a little-known but useful word from the Greek, meaning roughly “memory of the future.” It was ap- parently coined by a psychologist in 1903 and defined as “the paradoxical sensation of recollecting a scene which is only now occurring for the first time; the sense of the déjà vu.” Science fiction is usually cited as the literary genre where near-perfect examples of promnesia are most often found. But it would be hard to find a better example of fiction’s becoming reality than popular novelist Morgan Robertson’s novel Futility (1898). Published 14 years before the Titanic sank in history’s most fa- mous marine disaster, it told of a great “unsinkable” luxury liner named the Titan that sank on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg, with the loss of almost all passengers because there weren’t enough lifeboats aboard. There were at least 10 other similarities in the novel to the real tragedy.

词汇	promnesia
词源	promnesia. Promnesia is a little-known but useful word from the Greek, meaning roughly “memory of the future.” It was ap- parently coined by a psychologist in 1903 and defined as “the paradoxical sensation of recollecting a scene which is only now occurring for the first time; the sense of the déjà vu.” Science fiction is usually cited as the literary genre where near-perfect examples of promnesia are most often found. But it would be hard to find a better example of fiction’s becoming reality than popular novelist Morgan Robertson’s novel Futility (1898). Published 14 years before the Titanic sank in history’s most fa- mous marine disaster, it told of a great “unsinkable” luxury liner named the Titan that sank on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg, with the loss of almost all passengers because there weren’t enough lifeboats aboard. There were at least 10 other similarities in the novel to the real tragedy.
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