amnesia.

The inability to recall some previously known information or to retain new memories, beyond ordinary forgetting.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• retrograde amnesia
• anterograde amnesia
• a period of amnesia

On the page

Her amnesia covered the journey, not the person she had traveled with.

He left himself notes because the amnesia made yesterday's conversation as inaccessible as childhood.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural amnesias in technical discussion of distinct forms. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.