Synonyms for amnesia
æmˈni ʒəam·ne·si·a

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1. amnesia, memory loss, blackoutnoun

   partial or total loss of memory

   "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

   Synonyms:
   brownout, memory loss, blackout, dimout

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How to use amnesia in a sentence?

1. Alicia Garza:

   It's an America where the rules around race and gender and class are fundamental, and they shape and impact people's everyday lives. It's also an America where we function under a particular sense of amnesia.

2. Julie Krafchick:

   We can't have amnesia that dating wasn't perfect before, part of the reason we created the podcast in the first place was to answer the question,' What the f ** k is wrong with modern dating ?'.

3. Vasant Dhar:

   These corrections are always vicious and sudden, and it is amazing how quickly all of the experts and pundits and gurus change their tune, the market always has amnesia.

4. Octavio Jones/Getty Images:

   When he ran two election cycles ago, he ran as a Democrat and I think he really forgot that parents and students in Florida want school choice and we're not going to turn our back on the support that we've had for all of these years, for almost a decade now, from governors who have supported choice in the state of Florida, what he's trying to achieve, I really think he thinks that we have amnesia. I'm not sure what he's trying to get out of it.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   I want Democrats to vote for me, but I want sensible Republicans to vote for me, too, the only way Republicans can win this election is if they can induce a state of amnesia in all of us.