amnesic
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Amnesic describes someone affected by amnesia—the loss of memory due to injury, illness, or psychological trauma.
As a noun, an amnesic is a person with this condition: The amnesic couldn't recall anything from before the accident.
The word applies both to people and to the gaps themselves: amnesic episodes, amnesic symptoms.
Also spelled amnesiac, which is more common as a noun.
Moving in normal direction
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
- hippocampusMemory formation region
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
encephalitis · neurology · cognitive · trauma · brain · lesion · anoxia · neuropathy
Inattentive to immediate surroundings
- scatterbrainedLacking mental focus
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- heedlessCareless of consequences
- inattentiveNot paying attention
unmindful · distracted · preoccupied · forgetful · neglectful · vague · fuzzy · bemused
Without marks or content
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- voidWithout legal effect
- gapUnfilled space between
- absenceState of not being
lacuna · erasure · oblivion · nothingness · vacuum · limbo · blankness · missing
Failing to retain memories
- blackoutComplete power loss
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- recallMemory retrieval act
- recollectionRecalled mental image
gaps · fragments · flashback · blocking · suppression · retrieval · recognition · encoding
Mental separation from surroundings
consciousness · selfhood · personality · depersonalization · derealization · continuity · narrative · autobiography
anterograde
Moving in normal direction
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
- hippocampusMemory formation region
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's · encephalitis · neurology · cognitive · trauma · brain · lesion · anoxia · neuropathy · aphasia
absentminded
Inattentive to immediate surroundings
- scatterbrainedLacking mental focus
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- heedlessCareless of consequences
inattentive · unmindful · distracted · preoccupied · forgetful · neglectful · vague · fuzzy · bemused · dazed
blank
Without marks or content
absence · lacuna · erasure · oblivion · nothingness · vacuum · limbo · blankness · missing · lost
forgetting
Failing to retain memories
- blackoutComplete power loss
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- recallMemory retrieval act
recollection · gaps · fragments · flashback · blocking · suppression · retrieval · recognition · encoding · retention
dissociation
Mental separation from surroundings
psyche · consciousness · selfhood · personality · depersonalization · derealization · continuity · narrative · autobiography · past
amnesiceidetic
Perfectly retaining mental images
remembering · retentive · photographic memory · total recall · unforgetting
- selective amnesiaUnconsciously blocking specific memories
- anterograde amnesiaInability to create memories
- retrograde amnesiaInability to recall past events
- blanket amnestyUnconditional forgiveness for all
- general amnestySweeping official forgiveness
- cultural amnesiaSociety forgetting its past