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Amnesia is a medical word for when someone cannot remember in the usual way. It can mean old memories are gone, or — and this is the messy truth films often skip — new memories will not stick, so each day fails to stay. A knock on the head, illness, or heavy drinking can bring it on. Doctors use the word; everyday people stretch it for “I forgot,” which is too loose. Forgetting your keys is not amnesia. It is a formal, clinical word, not a joke about a bad memory.
From the word’s history
From Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία 'forgetfulness', alpha privative + μιμνήσκω 'to remember'.
源自古希臘文 ἀμνησία「健忘」，就是「不」加「記得」。
組成From Greek amnēsia, “forgetfulness”: a- meaning “not,” plus a root for remembering.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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amnesianoun/ˌæmˈniʒə/
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medicinepathologysciencesLoss 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
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Forgetfulness.
- a state of cultural amnesia
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slangA 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
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