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- pronunciation:
- aem
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noun |
| definition: |
When someone has amnesia, they have lost part or all of their memory. People sometimes get amnesia if they have an injury to the brain.
健忘症
The amnesia caused the man to forget what happened to him before the accident, but after some time, he remembered everything. |
The word amnesia
contains the following parts:
a-1, an-1
Greek
prefix
that means not, without
  More about this word part:
Words prefixed with a-1, an-1 are nouns and adjectives. Some are loanwords from Greek (amorphous, atrophy). Others are English formations, which may attach the prefix to English words of Latin origin (asocial, amoral) or Greek origin (apolitical). The form a-1 is used before bases beginning with a consonant, while an-1 is used before bases beginning with a vowel.
Example words:
abyss, amethyst, amnesia, anaemia, anarchy, anecdote, anemia, anesthesia, anonymous, apathy, atheist, atom
mne, mnes, mnest
Greek
root
that means memory
Example words:
- synonyms:
- memor, member, membr
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