"amnesia" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌæmˈniʒə/ [Canada], /æmˈniːʒə/ [UK], /æmˈniːz.i.ə/ [UK] Audio: en-ca-synth-amnesia.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-amnesia.wav [US] Forms: amnesias [plural], amnesiæ [plural]
Rhymes: -iːʒə 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*men- (think)}}, {{der|en|la|amnesia}} Latin amnesia, {{der|en|grc|ἀμνησία||forgetfulness}} Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), {{m|grc|μιμνήσκω|t=to remind, to remember}} μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|amnesiæ}} amnesia (countable and uncountable, plural amnesias or amnesiæ)
  1. (pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology, Memory Translations (loss of memory): فِقْدَان ذَاكِرَة (fiqdān ḏākira) (Arabic), амнезі́я (amnjezíja) [feminine] (Belarusian), স্মৃতিলোপ (smritilōp) (Bengali), স্মৃতিবিলোপ (smritibilōp) (Bengali), амнезия (amnezija) (Bulgarian), amnèsia [feminine] (Catalan), kì-ek sòng-sit [Hokkien] (Chinese), 失憶 (Chinese Cantonese), 失忆 (sat¹ jik¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 健忘 (gin⁶ mong⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 失憶症 (Chinese Mandarin), 失忆症 (shīyìzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), 健忘症 (jiànwàngzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), 記憶缺失 (Chinese Mandarin), 记忆缺失 (jìyì quēshī) (Chinese Mandarin), amnézie [feminine] (Czech), amnesi [common-gender] (Danish), hukommelsestab [neuter] (Danish), amnesie [feminine] (Dutch), memorperdo (Esperanto), amnezio (Esperanto), amnesia (Finnish), muistinmenetys (Finnish), amnésie [feminine] (French), Amnesie [feminine] (German), αμνησία (amnisía) [feminine] (Greek), eqqaamasaarunneq (Greenlandic), સ્મૃતિલોપ (smŕtilop) (Gujarati), स्मृतिलोप (smŕtilop) (Hindi), amnézia (Hungarian), amnesia (Indonesian), aimnéise [feminine] (Irish), díchuimhne [feminine] (Irish), 健忘症 (kenbōshō) (alt: けんぼうしょう) (Japanese), ಮರೆವು (marevu) (Kannada), 건망증 (geonmangjeung) (alt: 健忘症) (Korean), amnesi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hukommelsestap [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), amnesi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), یادزدودگی (yâd-zodudegi) (Persian), فراموشی (farâmuši) (Persian), نسیان (nesyân) (Persian), amnezja [feminine] (Polish), niepamięć [feminine] (Polish), amnésia [feminine] (Portuguese), amnezie [feminine] (Romanian), амнези́я (amnezíja) [feminine] (Russian), а̀мне̄зија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), àmnēzija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), amnézia [feminine] (Slovak), amnesia [feminine] (Spanish), amnesi [common-gender] (Swedish), kawalang-gunita (Tagalog), மறதி (maṟati) (Tamil), మతిమరుపు (matimarupu) (Telugu), hafıza kaybı (Turkish), amnezi (Turkish), bunak (Turkish), bunamak (verbform) (Turkish), амнезі́я (amnezíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), אַמנעזיע (amnezye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-amnesia-en-noun-X1nCZYIn Disambiguation of Memory: 61 15 24 Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 35 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 41 33 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences Disambiguation of 'loss of memory': 97 1 3
  2. (figurative) Forgetfulness. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-amnesia-en-noun-28opoMJu Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 35 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 41 33
  3. (UK, slang) A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana. Tags: UK, countable, slang, uncountable Synonyms: amm, ammie, marijuana
    Sense id: en-amnesia-en-noun-ZQFgT4PX Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with alpha privatives Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 29 49 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 35 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 41 33 Disambiguation of English terms with alpha privatives: 19 34 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: amnestic, amnestical, amnestically, amnesty, promnesia
Derived forms: amnesiac, amnesic, anterograde amnesia, character amnesia, childhood amnesia, dissociative amnesia, historical amnesia, infantile amnesia, maternal amnesia, milk of amnesia, momnesia, psychogenic amnesia, retrograde amnesia, Romnesia, transient epileptic amnesia

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      "word": "niepamięć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amnésia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amnezie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "amnezíja",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "амнези́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "а̀мне̄зија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "àmnēzija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amnézia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amnesia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "amnesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "kawalang-gunita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "maṟati",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "மறதி"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "matimarupu",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "మతిమరుపు"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "hafıza kaybı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "amnezi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "bunak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "word": "bunamak (verbform)"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "amnezíja",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "амнезі́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "amnezye",
      "sense": "loss of memory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אַמנעזיע"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "amnesia"
  ],
  "word": "amnesia"
}

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