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Amnestic

Definition: Amnestic

Amnestic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or caused by amnesia.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Amnestic" is a common misspelling or typo for: amnesiac, amnesic, amnesty, majestic.


Specialty Definitions: Amnestic

DomainDefinitions

Health

Nominal aphasia; a difficulty in finding the right name for an object. (references)

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Synonym: Amnestic

Synonym: amnesic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Amnestic

English words defined with "amnestic": alcohol amnestic disorder, amnestic aphasia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "amnestic": Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive DisordersFluvoxamine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Amnestic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Neuropsychology of the Amnestic Syndrome (Brain Damage, Behaviour & Cognition) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Amnestic

"Amnestic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amnestic" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Amnestic

Expressions using "amnestic": Alcohol Amnestic Disorder amnestic aphasia. Additional references.

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Modern Translations: Amnestic

Language Translations for "amnestic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

amnestisk syndrom (amnestic syndrome), erindringsø (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

amnestisch syndroom (amnestic syndrome), ziekte van Korsakow (amnestic syndrome), psychose van Korsakow (amnestic syndrome). (various references)

   

French

  

apraxie amnésique (amnestic apraxia), aphasie amnésique de Pitres (amnestic aphasia), syndrome amnestique (amnestic syndrome), souvenirs lacunaires (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references)

   

German

  

amnestisches Syndrom (amnestic syndrome), amnestische Apraxie (amnestic apraxia), Erinnerungsinsel (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμνησιακό σύνδρομο (amnestic syndrome), οργανικό ψυχοσύνδρομο (amnestic syndrome, organic mental syndrome, psycho-organic syndrome). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ASP (Amnestic Shellfish Poison, Audio selector panel), Acido Domoico (Amnestic Shellfish Poison), sindrome di Korsakoff (amnestic syndrome), sindrome amnestica (amnestic syndrome), psicosi polinevritica (amnestic syndrome), psicopolinevrite (amnestic syndrome). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amnesticay

   

Portuguese

  

síndrome amnéstica (amnestic syndrome), memória lacunar (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

относящийся к амнезии (amnesic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

síndrome de amnesia (amnestic syndrome), síndrome amnésico (amnestic syndrome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Amnestic

Derivations

Words ending with "amnestic": anamnestic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Amnestic"

Words rhyming with "amnestic" (pronounced 'Am*nes"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic, Aplastic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Amnestic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: semantic.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-s-t"

-1 letter: acetins, amnesic, cineast, cinemas, etamins, inmates, nematic, sematic, tameins.

-2 letters: acetin, actins, aments, amices, amines, anemic, animes, antics, ascent, camise, casein, centai, centas, cinema, enacts, enatic, etamin, iceman, incase, incest, inmate, inseam, insect, manics, mantes, mantic, mantis, mastic, matins, mesian, minces, misact, misate, miseat, nastic, nicest, samite, secant, semina, stamen, stance, tamein.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: coinmates, encomiast, magnetics, mechanist, miscreant, semantics.

 

+2 letters: anamnestic, centesimal, centigrams, centralism, cremations, criminates, culminates, cysteamine, emittances, encomiasts, hematinics, intimacies, kinematics, lemniscate, machinates, manticores, mechanists, melanistic, mendicants, militances, minacities, mincemeats, miscreants, myasthenic, semantical.

 

+3 letters: actinomyces, admittances, antiemetics, calumniates, centralisms, charmingest, cinematizes, colemanites, contumacies, cosmetician, creationism, cysteamines, decimations, emaciations, emancipates, encomiastic, gentamicins, immittances, impatiences, importances, intercampus, lemniscates, macerations, macintoshes, manneristic, martensitic, mechanistic, medicaments, medications, mendacities, mentalistic, militancies, miscreating, miscreation, misteaching, myasthenics, nematicides, nematocides, remittances, romanticise, semanticist, semiotician.

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Alternative Orthography: Amnestic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6D 6E 65 73 74 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --    -.    .    ...    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 006E 0065 0073 0074 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3579807185867569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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