amnesia
noun
- cognitive disorder where the memory is disturbed or lost and involves the loss of memories previously established, loss of the ability to create new memories, continuous high blood pressure and severe shock may also caused amnesia
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌæmˈniʒə/ / /æmˈniːʒə/ / /æmˈniːz.i.ə/
noun
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.
- 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”
- Forgetfulness.
“a state of cultural amnesia”
- 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”