amnesiac
One who forgets
An amnesiac is a person suffering from amnesia—the inability to remember past experiences or form new memories.
The word also works as an adjective describing anything related to such memory loss: an amnesiac episode, amnesiac symptoms.
Figuratively, it can characterize willful forgetting: The country seemed amnesiac about its colonial past.
Mental separation from surroundings
- selfOne's own being
- personaAssumed public identity
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
stranger · nameless · unknown · faceless · unrecognized · alienation · depersonalization · reconstructing
Contrapuntal musical form
- blackoutComplete power loss
- concussionBrain injury from impact
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
neurological · hippocampus · trauma · dissociation · disorientation · retrograde · anterograde · stroke
Failure to retain information
- blankWithout marks or content
- oblivionComplete erasure from memory
- erasureAct of wiping away
- voidWithout legal effect
gaps · fragmented · hazy · unclear · blocked · repressed · suppressed · inaccessible
Mind's retention capacity
- recallMemory retrieval act
- rememberingRetaining past information
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- encodingConverting data to format
retrieval · consolidation · retention · episodic · semantic · declarative · procedural · short-term
Reminder of the past
- DoryFeminine given name
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- protagonistStory's central figure
waking · clues · journal · photographs · tattoos · notes · rediscovery · conspiracy
dissociation
Mental separation from surroundings
disorientation · stranger · nameless · unknown · faceless · unrecognized · alienation · depersonalization · reconstructing · rediscovery
fugue
Contrapuntal musical form
- blackoutComplete power loss
- concussionBrain injury from impact
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's · neurological · hippocampus · trauma · dissociation · disorientation · retrograde · anterograde · stroke · epilepsy
forgetfulness
Failure to retain information
void · gaps · fragmented · hazy · unclear · blocked · repressed · suppressed · inaccessible · vanished
memory
Mind's retention capacity
- recallMemory retrieval act
- rememberingRetaining past information
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
encoding · retrieval · consolidation · retention · episodic · semantic · declarative · procedural · short-term · long-term
Memento
Reminder of the past
- DoryFeminine given name
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
protagonist · waking · clues · journal · photographs · tattoos · notes · rediscovery · conspiracy · trust
- missing peoplemissing child, lost child, lost hiker, lost tourist, abductee
- therapy patientsinpatient, outpatient, rehab patient
amnesiaceidetic
Perfectly retaining mental images
elephant · savant · photographic memory · total recall · rememberer
amnesiacmindful
Consciously attentive
living in the past · aware · present · lucid · reminiscent
- selective amnesiaUnconsciously blocking specific memories
- anterograde amnesiaInability to create memories
- retrograde amnesiaInability to recall past events
- cultural amnesiaSociety forgetting its past
- traumatic amnesiaMemory gap from trauma
- childhood amnesiaInability to recall early life