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/æmnˈiʒə/ Listen

noun

amnesia n.

(Med.) Forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory.

(Med.) 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. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Amnesia" Quotes from Famous Books

... me bodily out of that window," Harry admitted, cheerfully. "And that's another thing. I was sent here, I suppose, because I'd attempted suicide, gone into shock, temporary amnesia, something like that." ...

— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch

... Bergstrom went on, "that your lost memory will turn out to be no ordinary amnesia. I believe we will find that your mind ...

— Monkey On His Back • Charles V. De Vet

... that having been rendered unconscious as a result of the fall from his horse, he has some degree of retrograde amnesia and has invented details to fill the gaps in his memory, or could it be that writing, as he was, for his family and friends, he was indulging ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... obligatory sentence and Barrent had left the booth. Well-trained in the lessons of the classroom, he had taken himself into custody, had gone to the nearest thought-control center in Trenton. Already a partial amnesia had taken place, keyed to and triggered by the ...

— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... was equally impossible that Alice had made the trip, yet here was proof. Proof that swept him up in a doubting of his own senses. How could such a thing have taken place? Had he actually made such a trip and been stripped of the memory by some amnesia? Maybe he had forced himself to go with her and the power of his lifelong phobia had ...

— The Memory of Mars • Raymond F. Jones