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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