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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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Helterseeker
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: hell-tor-sEk-or
Sentence: Jill's search for her keys turned into a helterseeker. She forgot that she is seeking her keys when she stumbled onto a shoe she lost 2 months ago.
Etymology: helter skelter/seek
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
Absentfindedness
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: AB sent find ed NESS
Sentence: Able tore around the apartment, digging through gobs of stuff to find many things he forgot he had. Unfortunately, his absentfindedness prevented him from actually remembering what he was looking for. Perhaps Able found it after all that finding!
Etymology: I forgot... (Uh, a twist together of absentmindedness and find).
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COMMENTS:
Good word...amazing how many people are afflicted with this disease...not me, at least I don't remember having it! - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 20:19:00
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Disfolocate
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: dis-foh-loh-keht
Sentence: While hunting for his keys, Bob disfolocated and grabbed his jacket instead.
Etymology: dis=bad, fo=first syllable of "forget" and "focus" (pronounced as in "focus"), locate
Resclueless
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: res kloo less
Sentence: Les often forgot what he was looking for even as he was hunting it. He was resclueless. He even forgot to look for his girlfriend Ruth when she ran off with the paper boy. He still searches Ruthlessly for her...or something.
Etymology: Rescue (recover, retrieve) & Clueless (not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring;having forgotten all)
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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Brainmoshed
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: brainmoshed
Sentence: He was so brainmoshed, that he didn't realise the keys in his own hands - and if he would, he would have just put them aside an forgot about them...
Etymology: brain + mosh
Forgetmeenotagain
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: for/get/mee/not/a/gen
Sentence: After my fifth trip to the kitchen and experiencing a forgemeenotagain I decided to start writing all my tasks down as soon as I thought of them - then I forgot.
Etymology: forget me not + again
Absentfinded
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ab - sent - fine - ded
Sentence: Felicity was absentfinded. Everytime she went to look for something, she forgot what she was supposed to be looking for.
Etymology: absent-minded, find
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COMMENTS:
Our words today are very similar -this proves great minds think alike! Good word! - splendiction, 2009-10-01: 19:10:00
great word - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 20:22:00
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Seekersblock
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: sikh-errs-blok
Sentence: He knew it would be in the last place he looked, but his seekersblock proved something of an obstacle.
Etymology: From "writer's block" and "seek". Always wonder whether you're allowed 2 separate words, because "seeker's block" would be better here.
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