Noun: amnesia
| Singular | amnesia |
| Plural | amnesias; amnesiæ |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him [2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 0:33 from the start, in dracula flow 3:]
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a state of cultural amnesia
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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 [2015, Jme, “Man Don’t Care” (track 13), in Integrity>, performed by Jme:]
Nouns inflected like amnesia
prosopopœia,
gonorrhœa,
septicæmia,
blennorrhœa,
monomania,
chimæra,
pharmacopœia,
amœba,
tænia,
amnesia,
encyclopædia,
anæmia,
cæsura,
melæna,
cassia,
cyclopædia,
anæsthesia,
ischæmia,
subpœna,
homœomeria, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Latin Nouns '
amnesia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἀμνησία'.