Usually means: Incorrect recollection perceived as real.
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  1. false memory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. False Memory (novel), False Memory, False memory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. false memory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  4. false memory: Wiktionary

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  1. false memory: Medical dictionary

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  1. false memory: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (false memory)

noun:  (psychology) A memory of something that did not happen, or is recalled differently from the way it actually happened.

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