Noun
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 dictionaryShort-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