amnesic aphasia

1. 1.

   inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects

   Synonymsnominal aphasiaanomic aphasiaanomiaamnestic aphasia

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about amnesic aphasia

What does amnesic aphasia mean?

amnesic aphasia means "inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects".

What is another word for amnesic aphasia?

Close synonyms include nominal aphasia, anomic aphasia, anomia, amnestic aphasia. 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 amnesic aphasia a common word?

amnesic aphasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.