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amnesiac

American  
[am-nee-zhee-ak, -zee-] / æmˈni ʒiˌæk, -zi- /

noun

  1. a person affected by amnesia.


adjective

  1. Also amnesic displaying the symptoms of amnesia.

Etymology

Origin of amnesiac

1910–15; amnesi(a) + -ac, after such pairs as mania, maniac

Example Sentences

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Daniel Rood gives short shrift to such “historically amnesiac tourism”; with “In the Shadow of the Great House,” he provides a provocative history of the plantation, one that spans continents and centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

In that scenario the nucleus behaves like an "amnesiac nucleus," with no memory of how it was formed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film Spellbound, Ingrid Bergman plays a psychiatrist who has fallen in love with her patient, an amnesiac accused of murder.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2024

The actor was nominated Friday as guest performer in a daytime drama series for his part as amnesiac Timothy Robicheaux on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2024

We tried to cover it with an amnesiac condition instead of the usual pre-printed memory of a Mars vacation.

From The Memory of Mars by Finlay, Virgil

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