amnesia
UK/æmˈniːʒə/
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Canada/ˌæmˈniʒə/
amnesia noun: loss of memory; forgetfulness.
Noun
amnesia (countable and uncountable, plural amnesias or amnesiæ)
- Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
- I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021
- They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 0:33 from the start, in dracula flow 3
- Synonyms:
- memory loss
- Forgetfulness.
- a state of cultural amnesia
- A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.
- She's lighting up some sensis, he's lighting up amnesias / I'm 'bout to get it started, I'm 'bout to get amnesia'd2015, Jme, “Man Don’t Care” (track 13), in Integrity>, performed by Jme
amnesia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
amnesia in Hindi
- loss of memory
- स्मृतिलोप smŕtilop
amnesia in Tamil
- loss of memory
- மறதி maṟati
amnesia in Marathi
- amnesia, memory loss
- स्मृतिभ्रंश smrutibhrauśa
amnesia in Urdu
- نسیان, ضعف حافظہ
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- amnesia in Bengali
- স্মৃতিলোপ smritilōp, স্মৃতিবিলোপ smritibilōp
- amnesia in Telugu
- మతిమరుపు matimarupu
- amnesia in Malayalam
- ഓർമക്കുറവ് ōṟmakkuṟavŭ
- amnesia in Kannada
- ಮರೆವು marevu
- amnesia in Gujarati
- સ્મૃતિલોપ smŕtilop
- amnesia in Odia
- ଆମ୍ନେସିଆ
- amnesia in Nepali
- अम्नेसिया
- amnesia in Tagalog
- kawalang-gunita
- amnesia in Arabic
- فِقْدَان ذَاكِرَة fiqdān ḏākira
- amnesia in Indonesian
- amnesia
- amnesia in Persian
- یادزدودگی yâd-zodudegi, فراموشی farâmuši, نسیان nesyân
Examples of amnesia in a sentence
- The country seems to have a national amnesia about its past.
- Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
- It is flamboyant yet unmemorable, like a screen saver, its refusal to freeze insuring instant amnesia.
Synonyms of amnesia
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Forms of amnesia
| plural | amnesias |
|---|---|
| plural | amnesiæ |
Origin of amnesia
From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”) prefixed with the alpha privative.
Words formed from amnesia
- amnesiac
- amnesic
- anterograde amnesia
- character amnesia
- childhood amnesia
- digital amnesia
- dissociative amnesia
- historical amnesia
- infantile amnesia
- maternal amnesia
- milk of amnesia
- momnesia
- national amnesia
- paramnesia
- psychogenic amnesia
- retrograde amnesia
- Romnesia
- transient epileptic amnesia
- wordnesia
Phrases with amnesia
Words that rhyme with amnesia
Questions about amnesia
- What does amnesia mean?
- Amnesia means loss of memory; forgetfulness.
- What is amnesia in Hindi?
- Amnesia in Hindi is स्मृतिलोप (smŕtilop). See Amnesia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is amnesia?
- Amnesia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce amnesia?
- Amnesia is pronounced /ˌæmˈniʒə/ (Canada).
- What is the plural of amnesia?
- The plural of amnesia is amnesias.
Words near amnesia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: amnesia (page history and authors); स्मृतिभ्रंश (Marathi) (page history and authors); amnesia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഓർമക്കുറവ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); amnesia (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); amnesia (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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