anterograde amnesia

1. 1.

   loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma

   Synonymsposttraumatic amnesia

   Broaderamnesia

Questions about anterograde amnesia

What does anterograde amnesia mean?

anterograde amnesia means "loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma".

What is another word for anterograde amnesia?

Close synonyms include posttraumatic amnesia. 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 anterograde amnesia a common word?

anterograde amnesia 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.