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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, loss of memory; specifically, a morbid condition in which the patient is unable to recall a word that is wanted, or, perhaps, understand it when spoken: a common form of aphasia (which see).
  2. n. [capitalized] In zoöl., a genus of coleopterous insects.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology Loss of memory; forgetfulness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. partial or total loss of memory

Etymologies

  1. From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsia, "forgetfulness"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek amnēsiā, forgetfulness, probably from amnēstiā, from amnēstos, not remembered : a-, not; see a-1 + mimnēskein, mnē-, to remember; see men-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (1)

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  1. forgetfulness

hypernyms (2)

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  1. cognitive state
  1. state of mind

hyponyms (6)

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  1. retrograde amnesia
  1. selective amnesia
  1. transient global amnesia
  1. posttraumatic amnesia
  1. forgetfulness
  1. anterograde amnesia

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  1. obliteration
  2. disorientation
  3. impairment
  4. infarction
  5. paralysis
  1. diarrhea
  2. deafness
  3. dementia
  4. dislocation
  5. schizophrenia
  1. anorexia
  2. blindness
  3. hallucination
  4. insanity
  5. palsy
  1. coma
  2. meltdown
  3. unconsciousness
  4. trauma
  5. aphasia
  1. hysteria
  2. forgetfulness
  3. shortfall
  4. remission
  5. disconnection

rhymes (10)

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  1. Elysia
  2. Indonesia
  1. Magnesia
  2. Micronesia
  1. Polynesia
  2. Rhodesia
  1. Tunisia
  2. anaesthesia
  1. anesthesia
  2. magnesia

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  1. transient global amnesia
  2. posthypnotic amnesia
  1. selective amnesia
  2. posttraumatic
  1. amnesic
  2. amnestic
  1. Korsakoff's syndrome
  2. hysteria
  1. amnesiac
  2. temporal lobe epilepsy
  1. psychomotor epilepsy
  2. retrograde
  1. anterograde

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  • hernesheir Railroad telegraphers' shorthand notation meaning "Can you make an allowance on account of?" --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 19, 2013

  • jmjarmstrong JM thinks he had amnesia once - maybe twice. Jul 13, 2011

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