amnestic aphasia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnominal aphasiaanomic aphasiaanomiaamnesic aphasia

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about amnestic aphasia

What does amnestic aphasia mean?

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

What is another word for amnestic aphasia?

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

amnestic 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.