Amnesia
noun
A condition where a person can't remember things.
After the accident, he suffered from amnesia and couldn't recall any details.
Often appears as...
- suffer from amnesia
- temporary amnesia
noun
A situation where a person deliberately tries to forget unpleasant experiences.
She had a kind of amnesia about her dark past.
Often appears as...
- selective amnesia
- self-imposed amnesia
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Disapproving
noun
A condition where a person can't remember things.
After the accident, he suffered from amnesia and couldn't recall any details.
Often appears as...
- suffer from amnesia
- temporary amnesia
noun
A situation where a person deliberately tries to forget unpleasant experiences.
She had a kind of amnesia about her dark past.
Often appears as...
- selective amnesia
- self-imposed amnesia
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Amnesia is often used to describe memory loss due to injury or disease in medical shows or discussions.
The patient displays symptoms of amnesia following the cerebral hemorrhage.
Pro Tip 2/3Total or Partial
Amnesia can be total or partial, meaning a person may forget everything or just specific parts.
She's experienced partial amnesia; she remembers her name but not her family.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Misunderstanding
Unlike in movies, real amnesia rarely involves forgetting one's identity completely.
He knew who he was, but his amnesia blocked memories of the past year.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Amnesia is often used to describe memory loss due to injury or disease in medical shows or discussions.
The patient displays symptoms of amnesia following the cerebral hemorrhage.
Pro Tip 2/3Total or Partial
Amnesia can be total or partial, meaning a person may forget everything or just specific parts.
She's experienced partial amnesia; she remembers her name but not her family.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Misunderstanding
Unlike in movies, real amnesia rarely involves forgetting one's identity completely.
He knew who he was, but his amnesia blocked memories of the past year.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Amnesia is often used to describe memory loss due to injury or disease in medical shows or discussions.
The patient displays symptoms of amnesia following the cerebral hemorrhage.
Pro Tip 2/3Total or Partial
Amnesia can be total or partial, meaning a person may forget everything or just specific parts.
She's experienced partial amnesia; she remembers her name but not her family.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Misunderstanding
Unlike in movies, real amnesia rarely involves forgetting one's identity completely.
He knew who he was, but his amnesia blocked memories of the past year.
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Which brings me to an important point. Many of you are worried that if you use Google to look up your blocked words then you're cheating and contributing to the problem, weakening your memory. You're worried that Google is a high-tech crutch that's going to give you digital amnesia.
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Why are we happy? Why...
who had anterograde amnesia. These are hospitalized patients. Most of them have Korsakoff syndrome, a polyneuritic psychosis. They drank way too much, and they can't make new memories. They remember their childhood, but if you walk in and introduce yourself and then leave the room,
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The punishable perils of...
And lastly, the technique of revealing while concealing is plagiarism because it involves selective amnesia regarding one's sources in an attempt to cover up wholly quotable and pervasively paraphrased issues in a text. Some passages are meticulously documented, quoted,
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The surprising science...
what's the right response to that yeah right now here's the experiment we did and I hope this is gonna convince you that yeah right was not the right response we did this experiment with a group of patients who had antara grade amnesia these are hospitalized patients
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whose effects include pronounced amnesia. The plant is also loaded with compounds that disrupt the vital neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. Such disruption can cause vivid hallucinations, bizarre behaviors,
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Pearl Harbor Hero...
family and to just have them in a grave marked unknown it's heartbreaking they went on a while just in denial maybe he has amnesia and he's wandering around Hawaii somewhere or maybe he's badly
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the search for a real-life manchurian candidate begins to produce such an assassin the cia faces two main challenges how to induce amnesia and how to program new behavior
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Rediscovering ourselves...
ecological amnesia simply put we have forgotten where we have come from psychologically disconnected from our wild origins and from the elements a predictable human
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How theater weathers...
and everywhere, the universal mind is wracked with amnesia, boredom and neurotic obsessions." Sound familiar? We stop. We breathe. We observe.
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The Prison Break PIPE Think...
The a prison cell. The complete amnesia. And the a mysterious stranger has gotten stuck
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How Your Memory Works --...
Which brings me to an important point. Many of you are worried that if you use Google to look up your blocked words then you're cheating and contributing to the problem, weakening your memory. You're worried that Google is a high-tech crutch that's going to give you digital amnesia.
Video examples
Why are we happy? Why...
who had anterograde amnesia. These are hospitalized patients. Most of them have Korsakoff syndrome, a polyneuritic psychosis. They drank way too much, and they can't make new memories. They remember their childhood, but if you walk in and introduce yourself and then leave the room,
Video examples
The punishable perils of...
And lastly, the technique of revealing while concealing is plagiarism because it involves selective amnesia regarding one's sources in an attempt to cover up wholly quotable and pervasively paraphrased issues in a text. Some passages are meticulously documented, quoted,
Video examples
The surprising science...
what's the right response to that yeah right now here's the experiment we did and I hope this is gonna convince you that yeah right was not the right response we did this experiment with a group of patients who had antara grade amnesia these are hospitalized patients
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The science behind the...
whose effects include pronounced amnesia. The plant is also loaded with compounds that disrupt the vital neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. Such disruption can cause vivid hallucinations, bizarre behaviors,
Video examples
Pearl Harbor Hero...
family and to just have them in a grave marked unknown it's heartbreaking they went on a while just in denial maybe he has amnesia and he's wandering around Hawaii somewhere or maybe he's badly
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CIA Mind Control PIPE CIA...
the search for a real-life manchurian candidate begins to produce such an assassin the cia faces two main challenges how to induce amnesia and how to program new behavior
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
ecological amnesia simply put we have forgotten where we have come from psychologically disconnected from our wild origins and from the elements a predictable human
Video examples
How theater weathers...
and everywhere, the universal mind is wracked with amnesia, boredom and neurotic obsessions." Sound familiar? We stop. We breathe. We observe.
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The Prison Break PIPE Think...
The a prison cell. The complete amnesia. And the a mysterious stranger has gotten stuck
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Jonathan Powell
British Diplomat
When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.
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Erika Slezak
American Actress
Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
Haitian Statesman
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
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Jack Horner
American Scientist
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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John Guare
American Playwright
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I've forgotten this before.
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Luis Bunuel
Spanish Director
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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Betty Hill
American Celebrity
15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
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Adam Vinatieri
American Athlete
Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.
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Jonathan Powell
British Diplomat
When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.
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Erika Slezak
American Actress
Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
Haitian Statesman
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
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Jack Horner
American Scientist
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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John Guare
American Playwright
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I've forgotten this before.
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Luis Bunuel
Spanish Director
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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Betty Hill
American Celebrity
15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
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Adam Vinatieri
American Athlete
Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.
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