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amnesia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun amnesia has 1 sense
- amnesia(n = noun.cognition) blackout, memory loss - partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening" is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
has particulars: anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia, retrograde amnesia, forgetfulness, selective amnesia, transient global amnesia
Derived forms adjective amnesic2, adjective amnesic1, adjective amnestic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
amnesia, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amnhsi`a; 'a priv. + mna^sqai to remember.].
Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
amnesia, n. a partial or total loss of memory.
Derivative
amnesiac n. amnesic adj. & n.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk, = forgetfulness
THESAURUS
amnesia
agnosia, blackout, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, daydreaming, daze, dream state, fugue, fugue state, hypnotic trance, loss of memory, reverie, sleepwalking, somnambulism, stupor, trance, word deafnessROGET THESAURUS
amnesia
Oblivion
N oblivion, obliviousness, lethe, forgetfulness, amnesia, obliteration of &c, insensibility to the past, short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory, decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory, waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion, amnesty, general pardon, repressed memory, forgotten, unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind, buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion, clean forgotten, gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection, forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean, insensible to the past, heedless, non mi ricordo, the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at fault, being in fault, To the Future.
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