amnesia

amnesia

See also: amnésia and amnèsia

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæmˈniʒə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /æmˈniːʒə/, /æmˈniːz.i.ə/

• CA synth

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːʒə

Noun

amnesia (countable and uncountable, plural amnesias or amnesiæ)

1. (pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
2. (figurative) Forgetfulness.

   a state of cultural amnesia

Derived terms

• amnesiac
• amnesic
• anterograde amnesia
• character amnesia
• childhood amnesia
• dissociative amnesia
• historical amnesia
• infantile amnesia
• maternal amnesia
• milk of amnesia
• psychogenic amnesia
• retrograde amnesia
• transient epileptic amnesia

 

Related terms

• amnestic
• amnestical
• amnestically
• amnesty
• promnesia

 

Translations

loss of memory

Arabic: فِقْدَان ذَاكِرَة‎ (fiqdān ḏākira) Belarusian: амнезі́я f (amnjezíja) Bengali: স্মৃতিলোপ (smŕtilop), স্মৃতিবিলোপ (smŕtibilop) Bulgarian: амнезия (bg) (amnezija) Catalan: amnèsia (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 失憶 (sat1 jik1), 健忘 (gin6 mong4) Mandarin: 失憶症／失忆症 (zh) (shīyìzhèng), 健忘症 (zh) (jiànwàngzhèng), 記憶缺失／记忆缺失 (jìyì quēshī) Min Nan: kì-ek sòng-sit Czech: amnézie (cs) f Danish: amnesi c, hukommelsestab n Dutch: amnesie (nl) f Esperanto: memorperdo, amnezio Finnish: amnesia (fi), muistinmenetys French: amnésie (fr) f German: Amnesie (de) f Greek: αμνησία (el) f (amnisía) Gujarati: સ્મૃતિલોપ (smṛtilop) Hindi: स्मृतिलोप (hi) (smŕtilop) Hungarian: amnézia (hu) Indonesian: amnesia (id) Irish: aimnéise f, díchuimhne f Japanese: 健忘症 (けんぼうしょう, kenbōshō) Kannada: ಮರೆವು (kn) (marevu) Korean: 건망증(健忘症) (ko) (geonmangjeung) Norwegian: Bokmål: amnesi (no) m, hukommelsestap n Nynorsk: amnesi m Persian: یادزدودگی‎ (fa) (yâd-zodudegi), فراموشی‎ (fa) (farâmuši), نسیان‎ (fa) (nesyân) Polish: amnezja (pl) f, niepamięć (pl) f Portuguese: amnésia (pt) f Romanian: amnezie (ro) f Russian: амнези́я (ru) f (amnezíja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀мне̄зија f Roman: àmnēzija (sh) f Slovak: amnézia (sk) f Spanish: amnesia (es) f Swedish: amnesi (sv) c Tagalog: kawalang-gunita Tamil: மறதி (ta) (maṟati) Telugu: మతిమరుపు (te) (matimarupu) Turkish: hafıza kaybı (tr), amnezi (tr), bunak (tr), bunamak (tr)(verbform) Ukrainian: амнезі́я (uk) f (amnezíja) Yiddish: אַמנעזיע‎ f (amnezye)

forgetfulness — see forgetfulness

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Ido: (please verify) amnezio (io)

Anagrams

• aminase, anemias

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Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmnesiɑ/, [ˈɑmne̞ˌs̠iɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): am‧ne‧si‧a

Noun

amnesia

1. amnesia

Declension

Inflection of amnesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		amnesia	amnesiat
genitive		amnesian	amnesioiden amnesioitten
partitive		amnesiaa	amnesioita
illative		amnesiaan	amnesioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		amnesia	amnesiat
accusative	nom.	amnesia	amnesiat
	gen.	amnesian
genitive		amnesian	amnesioiden amnesioitten amnesiainrare
partitive		amnesiaa	amnesioita
inessive		amnesiassa	amnesioissa
elative		amnesiasta	amnesioista
illative		amnesiaan	amnesioihin
adessive		amnesialla	amnesioilla
ablative		amnesialta	amnesioilta
allative		amnesialle	amnesioille
essive		amnesiana	amnesioina
translative		amnesiaksi	amnesioiksi
instructive		—	amnesioin
abessive		amnesiatta	amnesioitta
comitative		—	amnesioineen

Possessive forms of amnesia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	amnesiani	amnesiamme
2nd person	amnesiasi	amnesianne
3rd person	amnesiansa

Anagrams

• mesaani, saamien

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [amˈnesia̯]
• Hyphenation: am‧né‧sia

Noun

amnésia (first-person possessive amnesiaku, second-person possessive amnesiamu, third-person possessive amnesianya)

1. (pathology) amnesia: loss of memory

Derived terms

• amnesia disosiatif
• amnesia mundur
• amnesia psikologis
• amnesia sumber

 

Related terms

• amnesti

 

Further reading

• “amnesia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.neˈzi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: am‧ne‧sì‧a

Noun

amnesia f (plural amnesie)

1. amnesia

Anagrams

• esamina

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈnesja/ [ãmˈne.sja]
• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: am‧ne‧sia

Noun

amnesia f (plural amnesias)

1. amnesia

Derived terms

• amnesia anterógrada
• amnesia retrógrada
• amnésico

 

Further reading

• “amnesia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014