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
- 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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