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单词 amnesia
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Definition of amnesia in English:

amnesia

nounamˈniːzɪəæmˈniʒə
mass noun
  • A partial or total loss of memory.

    they were suffering from amnesia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Post-traumatic amnesia is defined as ending when clear and continual memory returns.
    • Mixed with alcohol it can cause severe disorientation, amnesia and loss of consciousness.
    • He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
    • In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia, an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace.
    • He slept like a log, his amnesia forgotten, through the morning and the noon.
    • He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.
    • If encoding is absent, amnesia will follow, as in the case of many of our dreams.
    • It covers a range of clinical presentations from identity disorder to amnesia.
    • Another form of potentially blissful ignorance is traumatic amnesia.
    • Total amnesia may also result from a medical operation that goes wrong.
    • Clearly, if I suffer selective amnesia, forgetting, say, five years of my life, I do not cease to be me.
    • Reports by patients of memory loss are of the erasing of autobiographical memories or retrograde amnesia.
    • Were they to be subjected to artificial amnesia to make them forget what they saw and did?
    • It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.
    • One of the more interesting types of amnesia is what psychiatrists call the fugue state.
    • Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
    • This period of childhood amnesia is now generally believed to end at about age three or four.
    • You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism.
    • One theory is that he has suffered a trauma which has caused amnesia, one of the methods the mind uses to retreat from a shock.
    • The deputy either has a very short memory or is suffering from political amnesia.
    Synonyms
    forgetfulness, poor memory, tendency to forget, lapse of memory

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek amnēsia 'forgetfulness'.

Rhymes

anaesthesia (US anesthesia), analgesia, freesia, Indonesia, Silesia, synaesthesia
 
 

Definition of amnesia in US English:

amnesia

nounæmˈniʒəamˈnēZHə
  • A partial or total loss of memory.

    they were suffering from amnesia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This period of childhood amnesia is now generally believed to end at about age three or four.
    • You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism.
    • Mixed with alcohol it can cause severe disorientation, amnesia and loss of consciousness.
    • Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
    • Clearly, if I suffer selective amnesia, forgetting, say, five years of my life, I do not cease to be me.
    • It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.
    • Total amnesia may also result from a medical operation that goes wrong.
    • One of the more interesting types of amnesia is what psychiatrists call the fugue state.
    • He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
    • The deputy either has a very short memory or is suffering from political amnesia.
    • It covers a range of clinical presentations from identity disorder to amnesia.
    • In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia, an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace.
    • He slept like a log, his amnesia forgotten, through the morning and the noon.
    • Reports by patients of memory loss are of the erasing of autobiographical memories or retrograde amnesia.
    • Post-traumatic amnesia is defined as ending when clear and continual memory returns.
    • Another form of potentially blissful ignorance is traumatic amnesia.
    • If encoding is absent, amnesia will follow, as in the case of many of our dreams.
    • One theory is that he has suffered a trauma which has caused amnesia, one of the methods the mind uses to retreat from a shock.
    • He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.
    • Were they to be subjected to artificial amnesia to make them forget what they saw and did?
    Synonyms
    forgetfulness, poor memory, tendency to forget, lapse of memory

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek amnēsia ‘forgetfulness’.

 
 
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