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amnesiac

am nee zee ak

  • n  a person suffering from amnesia
  • s  suffering from a partial loss of memory

  • Not every buyer is a musical amnesiac.
  • As the '50s wore on, Mailer published Barbary Shore, a middling novel about an amnesiac writer and some despairing Trotskyists in Brooklyn, and a better but still underrated .
  • Another: that she was an amnesiac living in the South Seas.
Quotes

  • Endel Tulving in Toronto Star
    He's No. 2 in terms of fame as an amnesiac in the world,says Endel Tulving, a world-renowned memory studies pioneer with Rotman Research Institute at Toronto's Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.
  • Mark E Smith in Independent
    Of course I do. I'm not bloody amnesiac,Smith confirmed.
  • Orville Schell in Asia Times Online
    The fading of historical memory is a natural thing,says Orville Schell, a China expert and the dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. "What is unnatural is the willful, amnesiac effort of...

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