posttraumatic 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

   Synonymsanterograde amnesia

   Broaderamnesia

Questions about posttraumatic amnesia

What does posttraumatic amnesia mean?

posttraumatic 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 posttraumatic amnesia?

Close synonyms include anterograde 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 posttraumatic amnesia a common word?

posttraumatic 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.