Synonyms for amnesia

Grammar : Noun

Spell : am-nee-zhuh

Phonetic Transcription : æmˈni ʒə

Définition of amnesia

Origin : "loss of memory," 1786 (as a Greek word in English from 1670s), Modern Latin, coined from Greek amnesia "forgetfulness," from a-, privative prefix, "not" (see a- (3)) + mimneskesthai "to recall, cause to remember," a reduplicated form related to Greek mnemnon "mindful," mneme "memory," mnasthai "to remember;" from PIE root *men- "to think, remember" (see mind (n.)).

noun memory loss

Example sentences :

You seem remarkably clear in your mind to be afflicted with amnesia.
Extract from : « The White Desert » by Courtney Ryley Cooper

This is the breaking point, the moment when amnesia intervenes.
Extract from : « When Winter Comes to Main Street » by Grant Martin Overton

Some kind of hysteria and amnesia hit you while we were there.
Extract from : « The Memory of Mars » by Raymond F. Jones

In a lesser degree, amnesia only affects limited periods of life.
Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell

What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?
Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce

Asked her friend abruptly, "Have you ever seen a case of amnesia?"
Extract from : « Under the Law » by Edwina Stanton Babcock

For instance, I could have amnesia so that I could see you, but there wouldn't be any me.
Extract from : « Under the Law » by Edwina Stanton Babcock

If you got amnesia, I and the rest of the human race would disappear.
Extract from : « Freudian Slip » by Franklin Abel

How do you think that amnesia stuff is going to sound in court?
Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn

Now if you let me out and I'm the first case that don't get amnesia, I can tell the world about all this.
Extract from : « At the Post » by Horace Leonard Gold

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