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Amnesia

//ˌæmˈniʒə// noun, slang

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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"

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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