amnesia

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

blackout memory loss nirvana lethe daze laxness blank suppression abstraction repression negligence trance fugue oblivion erasure
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Antonyms

chronicle remembrance memory mind recall mnemonic
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Hypernyms

state of mind cognitive state

Hyponyms

forgetfulness retrograde amnesia anterograde amnesia posttraumatic amnesia selective amnesia transient global amnesia

Related terms

amnesty amnestic promnesia amnestical amnestically

Phrases with the word

amnesia for personal identity transient global amnesia retroactive amnesia amnesia which involves unplanned travel amnesia which involves unplanned wandering childhood amnesia

Anagrams

aminase

Examples

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. Norman Mailer

The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost? Jane Jacobs

I had amnesia once or twice. Steven Wright

Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps. Erika Slezak

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too? Laurie Halse Anderson

Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. Steven Wright

Close letter words and terms

amnaesia Amnat Charoen amnemonic amnesia for personal identity amnesia which involves unplanned travel amnesia which involves unplanned wandering