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amnesiac

[am-nee-zhee-ak, -zee-] / æmˈni ʒiˌæk, -zi- /
ADJECTIVE
forgetful
Synonyms


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Daniel Rood gives short shrift to such “historically amnesiac tourism”; with “In the Shadow of the Great House,” he provides a provocative history of the plantation, one that spans continents and centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

In that scenario the nucleus behaves like an "amnesiac nucleus," with no memory of how it was formed.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

That insect, a central player in the third episode, titled “Feast of Flesh,” gives the amnesiac Spear a purpose.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film Spellbound, Ingrid Bergman plays a psychiatrist who has fallen in love with her patient, an amnesiac accused of murder.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2024

We tried to cover it with an amnesiac condition instead of the usual pre-printed memory of a Mars vacation.

From The Memory of Mars by Virgil Finlay



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