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Definition of Amnesiac
1. Noun. A person suffering from amnesia.
2. Adjective. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
Definition of Amnesiac
1. Noun. Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amnesiac
1. one suffering from amnesia [n -S]
Medical Definition of Amnesiac
1. One suffering from amnesia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amnesiac
Literary usage of Amnesiac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"The two former are hemiplegic, the latter suffers from amnesiac aphasia. I do
not think that altitude exerts much influence as a cause of apoplexy. ..."
2. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"Several of these, including the mutants dunce, rutabaga, and amnesiac, encode
components of the cAMP/PKA signal transduction pathway, suggesting that in ..."
3. Date Rape Drugs: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of edited by Fred Upton (1999)
"... fast onset of depressant effects and its amnesiac effect render victims unable
to recall the details of the attack. Nonetheless, DEA is aware of 13 ..."
4. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"... break the curse of literate memory, and to immerse ourselves in the structurally
amnesiac systems of signs corresponding to and addressing our senses. ..."
5. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1890)
"... except that one was somewhat smaller; slight amnesiac aphasia, great depression
of spirits, patient anxious, inclined to weep, feared impending death. ..."
6. Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions by Ghent Urban Studies Team, Aaron Betsky (2002)
"Years ago, Stuart Hall identified the amnesiac effects characteristically associated
with the traditional European refusal to concede a habitable place for ..."
7. Global Infatuation: explorations in transnational publishing and texts : the by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (1998)
"... (1989) is on a mission to win back the man she loves, entrepreneur cum
millionaire Ross Lyneham. amnesiac ..."
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