amnesia
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amnesia
- /ˌæmˈniʒə/ Canada
- /æmˈniːʒə/ UK
- /æmˈniːz.i.ə/ UK
Rhymes with -iːʒə
Where it comes from
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.
noun amnesias · amnesiæ
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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.
Similar: memory loss
- Forgetfulness. a state of cultural amnesia
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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'd
Similar: amm, ammie, bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: blackout, memory loss, anterograde, pulse, loss, call, passenger, oblivion, blankness, fugue, forgetfulness, lost time, obliviscence, pseudodementia, dissociative fugue, retrograde amnesia
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noun loss of memory
| Español | amnesia |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 건망증 geonmangjeung |
| 日本語 | 健忘症 kenbōshō |
| 中文 | 失憶症 /失忆症 shīyìzhèng, 健忘症 jiànwàngzhèng, 記憶缺失 /记忆缺失 jìyì quēshī, 遺忘症 /遗忘症 yíwàngzhèng |
| हिन्दी | स्मृतिलोप smŕtilop |
| Português | amnésia |
| Français | amnésie |
| Deutsch | Amnesie |
| Ελληνικά | αμνησία amnisía |
| Română | amnezie |
| Русский | амнези́я amnezíja |
| العربية | فِقْدَان ذَاكِرَة fiqdān ḏākira |
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title = {amnesia},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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