amnesia
nounUK /æmˈniːʒə/ · CA /ˌæmˈniʒə/
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.
- 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.2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
- They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 0:33 from the start, in dracula flow 3:
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Figuratively Forgetfulness.
- a state of cultural amnesia
- She's lighting up some sensis, he's lighting up amnesias / I'm 'bout to get it started, I'm 'bout to get amnesia'd2015, Jme, “Man Don’t Care” (track 13), in Integrity>, performed by Jme:
- Derived terms
- 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
- Related terms
- amnestic, amnestical, amnestically, amnesty, promnesia