Colloquial Variant guide

amnesia

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Canada: /ˌæmˈniʒə/
  • UK: /æmˈniːʒə/
  • UK: /æmˈniːz.i.ə/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːʒə
  • CMU ARPABET: AE0 M N IY1 ZH AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Loss of memory; forgetfulness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: memory loss

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Forgetfulness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable

Examples

  • a state of cultural amnesia

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: amm, ammie, bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doja, doobage, dope, endo, gage, ganja, ganj, grass, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, Mary Jane, MJ, marihoochie, marijuana, Mary Joanna, method, mezz, muggle, mull, pot, puff, reefer, sens, sensimillia, sensimilla, shit, sweetleaf, tea, Texas tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

partial or total loss of memory

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he has a total blackout for events of the evening

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: memory loss, blackout

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cognitive state, state of mind

Narrower terms: anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia, retrograde amnesia, forgetfulness, selective amnesia, transient global amnesia

History

Etymology

From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”) prefixed with the alpha privative.

Across languages

Translations

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: فِقْدَان ذَاكِرَة (fiqdān ḏākira) — loss of memory
  • Belarusian: амнезі́я (amnjezíja) — loss of memory
  • Bengali: স্মৃতিলোপ (smritilōp) — loss of memory
  • Bengali: স্মৃতিবিলোপ (smritibilōp) — loss of memory
  • Bulgarian: амнезия (amnezija) — loss of memory
  • Catalan: amnèsia — loss of memory
  • Chinese Cantonese: 失憶 /失忆 (sat1 jik1) — loss of memory
  • Chinese Cantonese: 健忘 (gin6 mong4) — loss of memory
  • Chinese: kì-ek sòng-sit — loss of memory
  • Chinese Mandarin: 失憶症 /失忆症 (shīyìzhèng) — loss of memory
  • Chinese Mandarin: 健忘症 (jiànwàngzhèng) — loss of memory
  • Chinese Mandarin: 記憶缺失 /记忆缺失 (jìyì quēshī) — loss of memory
  • Chinese Mandarin: 遺忘症 /遗忘症 (yíwàngzhèng) — loss of memory
  • Czech: amnézie — loss of memory
  • Danish: amnesi — loss of memory
  • Danish: hukommelsestab — loss of memory
  • Dutch: amnesie — loss of memory
  • Dutch: geheugenverlies — loss of memory
  • Esperanto: memorperdo — loss of memory
  • Esperanto: amnezio — loss of memory
  • Finnish: amnesia — loss of memory
  • Finnish: muistinmenetys — loss of memory
  • French: amnésie — loss of memory
  • German: Amnesie — loss of memory
  • Greek: αμνησία (amnisía) — loss of memory
  • Greenlandic: eqqaamasaarunneq — loss of memory
  • Gujarati: સ્મૃતિલોપ (smŕtilop) — loss of memory
  • Hindi: स्मृतिलोप (smŕtilop) — loss of memory
  • Hungarian: amnézia — loss of memory
  • Indonesian: amnesia — loss of memory
  • Irish: aimnéise — loss of memory
  • Irish: díchuimhne — loss of memory
  • Japanese: 健忘症 (kenbōshō) — loss of memory
  • Kannada: ಮರೆವು (marevu) — loss of memory
  • Korean: 건망증 (geonmangjeung) — loss of memory
  • Latin: memōriae amīssio — loss of memory
  • Lithuanian: amnezija — loss of memory
  • Lithuanian: atminties netekimas — loss of memory
  • Lithuanian: atminties susilpnėjimas — loss of memory
  • Norwegian Bokmål: amnesi — loss of memory
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hukommelsestap — loss of memory
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: amnesi — loss of memory
  • Persian: یادزدودگی (yâd-zodudegi) — loss of memory
  • Persian: فراموشی (farâmuši) — loss of memory
  • Persian: نسیان (nesyân) — loss of memory
  • Polish: amnezja — loss of memory
  • Polish: niepamięć — loss of memory
  • Portuguese: amnésia — loss of memory
  • Romanian: amnezie — loss of memory
  • Russian: амнези́я (amnezíja) — loss of memory
  • Serbo-Croatian: а̀мне̄зија — loss of memory
  • Serbo-Croatian: àmnēzija — loss of memory
  • Slovak: amnézia — loss of memory
  • Spanish: amnesia — loss of memory
  • Swedish: amnesi — loss of memory
  • Tagalog: kawalang-gunita — loss of memory
  • Tamil: மறதி (maṟati) — loss of memory
  • Telugu: మతిమరుపు (matimarupu) — loss of memory
  • Turkish: hafıza kaybı — loss of memory
  • Turkish: amnezi — loss of memory
  • Turkish: bunak — loss of memory
  • Turkish: bunamak (verbform) — loss of memory
  • Ukrainian: амнезі́я (amnezíja) — loss of memory
  • Yiddish: אַמנעזיע (amnezye) — loss of memory