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amnesia

noun/æmˈniːziə/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A partial or total loss of memory.

After the head injury he had a dense amnesia for the hour surrounding the collision.

Similar: memory loss

Topic: Neurology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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