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DEFINITION: n. A condition where you get so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for. v. To forget what you are looking for while you are looking for it.
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Roomnesia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: roŏmnēzhə
Sentence: Tom has more nesias than you can shake a stick at. There*s roomnesia, where he is working and realizes he needs something to complete his task only to forget what he was going to find when he leaves the room. There is roamnesia, where he forgets what he was working on as soon as he starts to wander in search of something he now can\'t remember. He also shows signs of homenesia, where he forgets where he is going as soon as he leaves the house and Romenesia where he can*t remember his vacation to Italy. Tom figures the final stage will be tombnesia when he can forget everything and get some long-lasting rest.
Etymology: room (a part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory)
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COMMENTS:
I have worknesia, where I get so distracted thinking up a word for Verbotomy that I forget to get ready for work. - mrskellyscl, 2009-10-01: 06:40:00
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Wherehead
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: HWEHR-hehd
Sentence: I whereheaded about until I saw the keys, at which point I remember that I was looking for them in the first place.
Etymology: where + [air]head
Disfindtional
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: diss + find + shun + ull
Sentence: I got so upset over my missing wallet that I was completely disfindtional. But I did find my mobile phone, at least. Now if I only had some cash...
Etymology: disfunctional + find
Confogulated
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: con-fog-u-late-ed
Sentence: I'm so confogulated, what was I looking for?
Etymology: Confused+forgot+discombobulated
Itemnesia
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: eye-tem-NEES-yah
Sentence: After 20 minutes of frantically searching through her Prius, Sharon paused, stricken with itemnesia. Now WHAT was she looking for?
Etymology: item + amnesia
Dejalose
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation: Day-Jah-LooZ
Sentence: When wandering around with dejalose, you often have to stop looking in order to trigger recall of what you are looking for.
Etymology: from Deja Vous french for "all over again" and lose as in misplace from Lose -
Memoreverse
Created by: Sketchy
Pronunciation: memo-REE-verse
Sentence: The Doctor said It's a condition called memoreverse...wait, what was I saying again?
Etymology: Memory, Reverse
Displaceia
Created by: EffingCharms
Pronunciation: dis -place- ee- ahh
Sentence:
Etymology:
Distrocupied
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (dis-TROC-you-PIED)
Sentence: He was so distrocupied with looking for the remote that after he forgot and walked to the tv to turn it on.
Etymology: "Distract" (to change your attention to something else), and "preoccupy" (engross one's thought into, such as finding something)
Alzhunter
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: allz-hun-ter
Sentence: Carl was certain that he had early onset of Alzhunter's Disease when he began to forget what it was that he was looking for in the first place; however, while he was hunting it, he found what he was looking for yesterday -- except he couldn't remember why he was looking for it.
Etymology: Alzheimer's Disease: dimentia often beginning with short-term memory loss + hunter: one who searches or seeks for something
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COMMENTS:
I often find things by looking for something else. - artr, 2009-10-01: 11:06:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066.
Thank you mana1066! ~ James
I do believe in the UK the DJ on Radio 2 called Terry Wogan calls this a senior moment but thats two words.
Funny thing is that it's been happening to me since I was a kid... Do think it's going to get worse as I get older?
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. Thank you mana1066. ~ James