Definitions for amnesias

amnesias am·ne·sia

Spelling: [am-nee-zhuh]
IPA: /æmˈni ʒə/

Amnesias is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 283 anagrams from letters in amnesias (aaeimnss).

Definitions for amnesias

noun

  1. loss of a large block of interrelated memories; complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, shock, etc.

Origin of amnesias

1780-90; New Latin Greek amnēsía, variant of amnēstía oblivion; perhaps learnedly formed from mnē-, stem of mimnḗskesthai to remember (cf. mnemonic) + -s- + -ia <

Examples for amnesias

Dr. Anand Veeravagu on the rare form of amnesia that can strike without warning.

You seem remarkably clear in your mind to be afflicted with amnesia.

But how many sleep-deprived nights are you prepared to spend in nightspots like Les Caves du Roy, amnesia, or Billionaire?

This is the breaking point, the moment when amnesia intervenes.

They were responding to that amnesia—our parents looked the other way.

Some kind of hysteria and amnesia hit you while we were there.

What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?

On the negative side, the sheer tonnage of opinions can overwhelm and cause a degree of amnesia.

In a lesser degree, amnesia only affects limited periods of life.

For Americans, World War I rests in a dark valley of amnesia between the glowing peaks of the Civil War and World War II.

Word Value for amnesias
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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