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'But I only see her once a year. And I do remember her hair. And her lips...'

DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.

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Redecollection

Created by: danboaz

Pronunciation: rE-dek-O-lekShun

Sentence: Jimmy was famous for his redecollection, but never more than with Suzy, maybe it was because she is the spitting image of his mother.

Etymology: re: again, de: not, collect: put to gether (as in recollect)

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Namefight

Created by: kevinrio

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Blankello

ubgrud

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: blahn-kell-oh

Sentence: "Hiiiii!!!" he blankelloed across the room. "It's been so long!"

Etymology: blank - to draw one ello - from "hello"

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Resnub

dancemonkey

Created by: dancemonkey

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Amnamesia

Chunk01

Created by: Chunk01

Pronunciation: Am-name-sia

Sentence: Despite spending a fun filled 14 days together in Cancun, now he saw her again in his home town he suffered a serious case of amnamesia

Etymology: name+amnesia = amnamesia

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Communamnesia

solsticesword

Created by: solsticesword

Pronunciation: commun-amnesia

Sentence: The man with an otherwise incredible memory suffered from communamnesia around his friends.

Etymology: commun from community and amnesia from amnesia

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Impromize

DaddyNewt

Created by: DaddyNewt

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When he saw her Ted impromized to no avail.

Etymology: improvise+memorize

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Prevaricuddling

Created by: wysware

Pronunciation: pre-vari-cud-ling

Sentence: As soon as he saw me he started to hug me in his prevaricuddling way

Etymology: prevaricate (avoid stating the truth) cuddling (embracing)

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Visnomia

Created by: xadrian

Pronunciation: vihz no me nya

Sentence: I suffer from visnomia every time I go to reunions.

Etymology: Vis from visage or face. Nom for name. "ia" for making it sound like a disease.

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Relationalize

Created by: mytimeonearth

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Sentence: It's very common to relationalize at family reunions.

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Comments:

Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 12:34:00
Babel - I love hospiwhothehellity

babel - 2006-12-11: 13:45:00
familanesia is a great one stevenson

wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 14:01:00
Personally, I find embarassing when I get familanesia or hospiwhothehellity... Why do you guys like it?

Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 15:31:00
I agree - both are great words but Babel - I think you could expand it to hospiwhothellareyouity

babel - 2006-12-11: 15:33:00
hospiwhothehellareyoulookingatmelikeimsupposedtoknowyouity

babel - 2006-12-11: 15:34:00
oh well, i guess i found the max single word length haha

wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 15:51:00
Yes, I can only guess how your word ends...

CaptPoco - 2006-12-18: 10:19:00
Memorafeeblia is so fun to say!