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amnesia

noun
/ˌæmˈniʒə/CA/æmˈniːʒə/UK

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.

  1. derived from ἀμνησία
  2. derived from amnesia

Definitions

  1. Loss of memory

    Loss of memory; forgetfulness.

    • 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.
    • They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him

  2. Forgetfulness.

    • a state of cultural amnesia

  3. A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.

    • 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

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Derived

amnesiac, amnesic, anterograde amnesia, character amnesia, childhood amnesia, digital amnesia, dissociative amnesia, historical amnesia, infantile amnesia, maternal amnesia, milk of amnesia, momnesia, national amnesia, psychogenic amnesia, retrograde amnesia, Romnesia, transient epileptic amnesia

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for amnesia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA