Both Uses
amnesia
in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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- GUIL: Difficult to say, really-some kings tend to be amnesiac, others I suppose-the opposite, whatever that is.... ROS: Yes-but GUIL: Elephantine ...?†
Act 1 *amnesiac = someone who has lost their memory
- Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.†
Act 3amnesia = loss of memory
Definitions:
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(1)
(amnesia) loss of memory (partial or total)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)