Amnesia

//ˌæmˈniʒə// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Loss of memory; forgetfulness. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    partial or total loss of memory wordnet
  3. 3
    Forgetfulness. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "a state of cultural amnesia"

  4. 4
    A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana. UK, countable, slang, uncountable

    "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"

Synonyms

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memory lossagnosiaammammiebenjbhang

Example

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"Amnesia means "loss of memory"."

Etymology

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.

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