amnesiac
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- noun
- /æmˈniːziæk/
- Specialized
:
amnésico
- But some soldiers remained amnesiacs for weeks or years.
Examples
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Kotor 2 was also similar in that it centered around an amnesiac piecing together his past.
Blog text (2) -
He's perfectly healthy, but he's a complete amnesiac, you know.
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Show me an amnesiac having their memory restored, and then I'll be amazed.
Blog text (12) -
Not long ago, she had seen a woman on some talk show, an amnesiac, who had lost her memory as a result of a head injury.
Fiction book (1999) -
The old Civil War veteran, for he is both old and amnesiac, eventually finds his way to Hazen's monument on the Stones River battlefield.
Fiction book (1998) -
The coolest thing about Stickgold's experiment is that he tested a population of amnesiacs, patients with the same basic problem as HM.
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After the accident, the amnesiac struggled to recall even his own name.
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The amnesiac couldn't remember his family or where he lived.
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She wondered if the amnesiac would ever regain his lost memories.
Synonyms
A person who has lost some or all of their memory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Amnesiac comes from the Greek parts a- meaning 'not' and mnesia meaning 'memory', so it literally means 'no memory'. That's why an amnesiac is a person who cannot remember things.