amnesia

Other forms of amnesia

plural

amnesias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amnesia

What does amnesia mean?

amnesia means "partial or total loss of memory".

How many syllables are in amnesia?

amnesia has 3 syllables: am-ne-sia. The stress falls on "ne". In IPA it is /æmˈniʒə/.

What is another word for amnesia?

Close synonyms include memory loss, blackout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amnesia a common word?

amnesia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with amnesia?

5 words rhyme with amnesia. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.