amnesic
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- adjective
- /æmˈniːzɪk/
- Specialized
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amnésico
- The amnesic patient struggled to recall any details about his past.
- amnesic patients
Examples
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Just as in sleep, amnesic hypnosis, or anesthesia, there is no consciousness of the duration of the state, and the conscious time flow seems unbroken from the moment of falling asleep to the moment of waking.
Blog text (7) -
I have found that to be very helpful, offering some insights, especially the amnesic dissociative walls stuff and things we don't want to deal with.
Blog text (3) -
As you might expect, the amnesic participants couldn't remember which prints they had picked.
Blog text (20) -
- Hard, cynical and a phabetical, amnesic, twisted without reason.
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We have no plans to reveal Lois is Superman's daughter from an alternate future or that Perry White is actually an amnesic Jonathan Kent who has been in witness protection.
Blog text (5) -
Through the amnesic removal of the overarching model, a reorientation of perception toward the experience of differentiation would serve as a means of opposing the serialized logic of the commodity.
Academic text (1997) -
Religious and civic bodies' public repentance for past cooperation with the forms of social sin articulated herein could begin to convert communities away from amnesic entitlement and toward solidarity with those on the underside of such histories.
Academic text (2010) -
In the shadow of that history, the version of federalism that the Court cites in support of local sovereign immunity is, as Professor Norman Spaulding once said of the Court's federalism jurisprudence, "chillingly amnesic."
Academic text (2016) -
Indeed, Professor Spaulding has observed that odes to federalism that ignore this monumental history are not just incomplete, but dangerous, because they "turn on a chillingly amnesic reproduction of antebellum conceptions of state sovereignty."
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During the study, the researchers focused on the amnesic individuals' ability to retain new information.
Synonyms
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9.6
Related to or causing loss of memory
Someone who cannot remember past events
Compounds
How Forgetful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word amnesic comes from Greek parts a- 'not' and mnes- 'remember'. So when someone or something is amnesic it means they are 'not remembering' or have a loss of memory.