AMNESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amnesia mean? 

• AMNESIA (noun)
  The noun AMNESIA has 1 sense:

1. partial or total loss of memory

  Familiarity information: AMNESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMNESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partial or total loss of memory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

amnesia; blackout; memory loss

Context example:

he has a total blackout for events of the evening

Hypernyms ("amnesia" is a kind of...):

cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amnesia"):

anterograde amnesia; posttraumatic amnesia (loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma)

retrograde amnesia (loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma)

forgetfulness (tendency to forget)

selective amnesia (amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember)

transient global amnesia (memory disorder seen in middle aged and elderly persons; characterized by an episode of amnesia and bewilderment that lasts for several hours; person is otherwise alert and intellectually active)

Derivation:

amnesic (suffering from a partial loss of memory)

amnesic; amnestic (of or relating to or caused by amnesia)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include anterograde and retrograde amnesia, confabulation, apathy, ataxia, and coma.

(Korsakoff Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, flumazenil reverses benzodiazepine-induced effects including sedation, psychomotor deficits, amnesia, and hypoventilation in a dose-dependent manner.

(Flumazenil, NCI Thesaurus)