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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.
Verboticisms
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Spacequesting
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: space-quest-ing
Sentence: John had been looking for his keys for so long that he was now spacequesting as he looked right at them without realizing he had found them.
Etymology: space (to be spaced-out as in distracted) + questing (to be searching for something)
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)
Confogulated
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: con-fog-u-late-ed
Sentence: I'm so confogulated, what was I looking for?
Etymology: Confused+forgot+discombobulated
Diversiamnesia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dy ver jha am neez eeya
Sentence: My son, Whatshisname, cannot remember a thing. He suffers from diversiamnesia. I don't know where he gets it from, but he goes into a room and forgets why he went there. Ideas land on his brain but flitter away like little butterflies if he has any distraction at all. My nagging makes it worse according to him, but you cannot trust him to run a simple errand or remember important things. I think he's hitting old age early and his condition is inherited from his father, Whateverhisnamewas. Where was I...???
Etymology: Diversion (a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); a distraction) & Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory)
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COMMENTS:
"hitting old age early" - chuckle! - splendiction, 2009-10-01: 19:15:00
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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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Flashblank
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: FLASH-blanc
Sentence: As has been happening all too often lately Delbert's mind was wandering while he was looking for his car keys and he had another flashblank, his mind going totally devoid of thought and leaving him completely unable to concentrate.
Etymology: Blend of 'flash' and 'blank'....play on the word flashback
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
Fourofourgot
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: for-oh-four-got
Sentence: Because she suffered from mysplasia, Sue fourofourgot that she was looking for her keys and walked out to her car, content in the fact that she had found the remote.
Etymology: 404 - error message "Not Found"; forgot (literally, to not find, then forget)
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COMMENTS:
I can imagine people of the future using this word... - Discoveria, 2007-03-15: 10:11:00
Speaking of people, I wonder why so many players are 404'd lately. Hope they weren't verbducted to another room. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-15: 11:46:00
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Lostenconfound
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lost/en/con/fownd
Sentence: Lostenconfound is the predicament in which Harry found himself more and more frequently.
Etymology: lost and found + confound
Damnesia
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: dam-nee-zhuh
Sentence: When you forget what you forgot it might be senility but it's probably just a case of damnesia.
Etymology: damn + amnesia
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COMMENTS:
lol... i get this all the time. - Sketchy, 2007-03-15: 16:46:00
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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