different between amnesty vs amnesia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French amnestie (Modern French amnistie), a borrowing from Latin amnestia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (amn?stía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm.n?.sti/

Noun

amnesty (countable and uncountable, plural amnesties)

1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

Related terms

• Amnesty International

Translations

Verb

amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)

1. To grant a pardon (to a group)

Translations

Further reading

• amnesty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amnesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amnesty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Matneys, Yetmans, maytens

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.