different between amnesia vs hypermnesia

English

Etymology

From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (amn?sía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from ???????? (mimn?sk?, “to remind, to remember”) prefixed with the alpha privative.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?æm?ni??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /æm?ni???/, /æm?ni?z.i.?/
• Rhymes: -i???

Noun

amnesia (countable and uncountable, plural amnesias or amnesiæ)

1. (pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
2. (figuratively) Forgetfulness.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• aminase, anemias

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (amn?sía, “forgetfulness”).

Noun

amnesia

1. amnesia

Declension

Anagrams

• mesaani, saamien

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (amn?sía, “forgetfulness”).

Pronunciation

• [amne?zi?a]

Noun

amnesia f (plural amnesie)

1. amnesia

Anagrams

• esamina

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (amn?sía, “forgetfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am?nesja/, [ãm?ne.sja]

Noun

amnesia f (plural amnesias)

1. amnesia

Derived terms

Further reading

• “amnesia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

hyper- +? the root mnesia (“relating to memory”)

Noun

hypermnesia (countable and uncountable, plural hypermnesias)

1. (psychology) An elevated level of memory recall.

Related terms

• amnesia
• cryptomnesia
• hypermnesic
• total recall