Crossword-Solution: AMNESIA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amnesia | n. | Forgetfulness; also, 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AMNESIA | anagram | AMINASE, ANEMIAS |
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Sentences with AMNESIA (5)
Eighteen years after the accident he suffered with pain in the left ear and temple, accompanied by epileptic fits and partial amnesia, together with an entire loss of power of remembering proper names and applying them to the objects to which they belonged.
According to Seguin a reverend old gentleman affected with amnesia of words was forced to utter after the sentence, "Our Father who art in heaven," the words "let Him stay there." A lady seen by Trousseau would rise on the coming of a visitor to receive him with a pleased and amiable expression of countenance, and show him to a chair, at the same time addressing to him the words, "cochon, animal, fichue bete," French words hardly allowable in drawing-room usage.
McNaughten Let me be hanged if I know it at all! Bronlow Could you possibly forget? Spruce (aside to Bronlow) Are you unable to see the illness he's suffering from? Bronlow Indeed, I am unable to see it! Spruce He's suffering from amnesia and cannot recall a thing.
This dislocation of memory is a variety of aphasia known as amnesia, and when the memory is recurrently lost and restored it is an "alternating personality." The psychical researchers and psychologists have reported many cases of alternating personality.
This dislocation of memory is a variety of aphasia known as amnesia, and when the memory is recurrently lost and restored, we have alternating personality.
Quotes with AMNESIA (3)
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
But Robin: their dear little Robs. More than ten years later, his death remained an agony; there was no glossing any detail; its horror was not subject to repair or permutation by any of the narrative devices that the Cleves knew. And — since this willful amnesia had kept Robin's death from being translated into that sweet old family vernacular which smoothed even the bitterest mysteries into comfortable, comprehensible form — the memory of that day's events had a chaotic, fr…
Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 103 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).