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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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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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Greek

Created by: Fleury

Pronunciation:

Sentence: We greeked each other, enthusiastically yet apprehensively.

Etymology: greet + eek!

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Forgautonym

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: For-got-o-nim

Sentence: As I walked in to my high school reunion, I realized that I would experience forgautonym many times this night.

Etymology: Forg - Forgot Autonym - a person's own name

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Mismonikiss

Arcysparky

Created by: Arcysparky

Pronunciation: Mis-mon-EE-kis

Sentence: "Give me a hug, it's been such a long time... pretty lady" John said as he mismonikissed his high school girlfriend.

Etymology: Mis- badly Moniker - name Kiss - (err... kiss)

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Whosithugs

ennia

Created by: ennia

Pronunciation: As it sounds

Sentence: I gave whosithugs to my distant cousins, while asking how old they were.

Etymology: Who is it? and Hug.

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Nomenesia

doogman

Created by: doogman

Pronunciation: No-Men-Ease-ee-ah

Sentence: As she hugged me and kissed my cheek, I was struck by a wave of nomenesia.

Etymology: From the Latin "nomen" (name) and amenesia (to forget)

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Forgetagreet

Created by: KoolKow

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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Shmoozemporize

Created by: squirrelian

Pronunciation: shmoozemporize

Sentence: He shmoozemporized until he could make a graceful exit.

Etymology: "Shmooze" plus "temporize" (temporize as in stall for time).

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Namenesia

Created by: GreatRandew

Pronunciation: nam-nee-see-ya

Sentence: When namenesia struck, Bertie could hardly remember his own name, never mind anyone else's

Etymology: Name + amnesia

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Remembefriendfacimatate

Created by: mrguy753

Pronunciation:

Sentence: John just called everyone "dude" and "buddy" as he tried to remembefriendfacimatate.

Etymology:

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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!