Search Result for "amnesia":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. partial or total loss of memory;
- Example: "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"
[syn: amnesia, memory loss, blackout]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
amnesia \am*ne"si*a\ ([a^]m*n[=e]"zh[u^] or [a^]m*n[=e]"z[i^]*[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amnhsi`a; 'a priv. + mna^sqai to remember.] 1. (Med.) Forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory. --Quian. [1913 Webster + AS] 2. (Med.) A defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. [Obs.] --Quian. [1913 Webster + AS]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "amnesia": agnosia, blackout, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, daydreaming, daze, dream state, fugue, fugue state, hypnotic trance, loss of memory, reverie, sleepwalking, somnambulism, stupor, trance, word deafness
