AMNESIAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amnesiac mean? 

• AMNESIAC (noun)
  The noun AMNESIAC has 1 sense:

1. a person suffering from amnesia

  Familiarity information: AMNESIAC used as a noun is very rare.

• AMNESIAC (adjective)
  The adjective AMNESIAC has 1 sense:

1. suffering from a partial loss of memory

  Familiarity information: AMNESIAC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMNESIAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from amnesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

amnesiac; amnesic

Hypernyms ("amnesiac" is a kind of...):

handicapped person (a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially)

Derivation:

amnesiac (suffering from a partial loss of memory)

• AMNESIAC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from a partial loss of memory

Synonyms:

amnesiac; amnesic

Similar:

forgetful; mindless; unmindful (not mindful or attentive)

Derivation:

amnesiac (a person suffering from amnesia)

 Context examples 

The past theory that short-term memories in the hippocampus transfer to long-term memories in the cortex was developed in the 1950s, when a famous amnesiac patient named Henry Molaison experienced a damaged hippocampus following surgery for epilepsy.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)