national amnesia
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A nationwide loss of memories about an event, time or cultural phenomenon.
Example Sentences
- "The country seems to have a national amnesia about its past."
- "[…]I don't want to remember, black people don't want to remember, white people don't want to remember. I mean, it's national amnesia."
- "Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are."
- "[…] for its subjects to be able to forget the history of bloody conquest and empire-building if they are to partake in a collective identity as members of such sovereignty. But such collective, national amnesia—at both the individual and the national levels—is precisely what Kundera takes issue with[…]"