Amnesia
/ˌæmˈniʒə/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 partial or total loss of memory wordnet
- 3 Forgetfulness. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"a state of cultural amnesia"
- 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"
Example
More examples"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.