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amnesia

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˌæmˈniʒə/
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/ˌæmˈniʒə/ · /æmˈniːʒə/ (UK) · /æmˈniːz.i.ə/ (UK)

Definition of amnesia

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Forgetfulness.
    “a state of cultural amnesia”
  3. (UK, countable, slang, uncountable)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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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.

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