amnesia
substantivoatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//æmˈniːʒə//
- Reino Unido//æmˈniːz.i.ə//
- Canadá//ˌæmˈniʒə//
Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
substantivo
- 1
Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.
They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him
- 2
figuradoForgetfulness.
a state of cultural amnesia
- 3
calãoA potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.
She's lighting up some sensis, he's lighting up amnesias / I'm 'bout to get it started, I'm 'bout to get amnesia'd
Etimologia
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.
Formas
- plural
- amnesias, amnesiæ