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Amnesia

Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

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Forgetfulness 76% connected

The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

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Amnesic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to amnesia.

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Amnesic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to amnesia.

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Amnestic 74% connected

Causing loss of memory.

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Amnestic 74% connected

Causing loss of memory.

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Aboulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Abulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Anhedonia noun · 86% connection

an inability to experience pleasure

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Catathymia noun · 86% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognitive state noun · 86% connection

the state of a person's cognitive processes

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Decentering noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Delusion noun · 86% connection

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

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Delusions of grandeur noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of persecution noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complica…

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Depersonalisation noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Depersonalization noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Disassociation noun · 86% connection

a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

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Frame of mind noun · 86% connection

a temporary psychological state

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Hallucinosis noun · 86% connection

a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Identity crisis noun · 86% connection

distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one'…

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Mental condition noun · 86% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Mental disease noun · 86% connection

any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychia…

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-er unknown · 78% connection

The termination of many English words, denoting the agent; -- applied either to men or things; as in hater, farmer, heater, grater. At…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: forgetfulness, defect, speech, cerebral, disease.
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Address verb · 78% connection

To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to s…

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Amnesty verb · 78% connection

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

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Aphasy noun · 78% connection

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserv…

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Articulate adjective · 78% connection

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds…

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Binomial adjective · 78% connection

Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other th…

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Cacuminal adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.

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CF noun · 78% connection

the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: forgetfulness, defect, speech, cerebral, disease.
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Cue noun · 78% connection

The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which ser…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: forgetfulness, defect, speech, cerebral, disease.
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Culpa noun · 78% connection

Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: forgetfulness, defect, speech, cerebral, disease.
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Cystic fibrosis noun · 78% connection

the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…

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Deaf-mute noun · 78% connection

A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, o…

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