amnesia

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amnesia

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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.

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæmˈniʒə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /æmˈniːʒə/, /æmˈniːz.i.ə/

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə

amnesia (countable and uncountable, plural amnesias or amnesiæ)

1. (pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
   • 2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

2. (figurative) Forgetfulness.

   a state of cultural amnesia

3. (UK, slang) A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.^[1]

   Synonyms: amm, ammie; see also Thesaurus:marijuana

   • 2015, Jme (lyrics and music), “Man Don’t Care” (track 13), in Integrity>, performed by Jme:

     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

• aminase, anemias

From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmnesiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): am‧ne‧sia

amnesia

1. amnesia

• “amnesia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• mesaani, saamien

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amnesia

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From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: am‧né‧sia

amnésia (uncountable)

1. (pathology) amnesia: loss of memory

• “amnesia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”).

• IPA^(key): /am.neˈzi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: am‧ne‧sì‧a

amnesia f (plural amnesie)

1. amnesia

• esamina

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

amnesia

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”).

• IPA^(key): /amˈnesja/

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• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: am‧ne‧sia

amnesia f (plural amnesias)

1. amnesia

• “amnesia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10