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DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.

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Disconthinkcue

Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: dis kon THIN kyu

Sentence: Partway through my presentation, I completely disconthinkued, causing me to stop mid-sentence. (One might also experience a "disconthinkcuance")

Etymology: discontinue + think.

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Evapidoration

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ēvapidərāshən

Sentence: Joan has given up any thoughts of thinking. She has resigned the real world, where you have to remember stuff, to join the e-world, where your IQ can be measured in gigabytes. Her **smart phone** is brighter than she is. If she has a thought, she better get it down in her notes app or it will succumb to evapidoration. A friend asks if she wants to meet at a particular restaurant. Before you can blink, she is reading the menu and texting a reservation. Just don*t ask her to share her thoughts. She doesn*t have time for those anymore.

Etymology: evaporation (cease to exist) + vapid (offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging - made of vapors)

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Blankout

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: BLANC-owt

Sentence: Cynthia and Rupert seemed to be on a connected wavelength, both having moments of blankout where their thoughts just dead ended in confused mental disarray.

Etymology: Blend of 'blank' and 'out', play on the word 'blackout'.

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Ruminesia

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: roo/muh/nee/zhuh

Sentence: He was contemplating the most brilliant idea for a new e-company when ruminesia set in and all he could remember was that he really wanted a chocolate ice-cream cone.

Etymology: ruminate (think about, ponder) + amnesia

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COMMENTS:

That's what happens when the rumen takes over from the brain. Probably wanted some rumenraisin sauce on his icecream - petaj, 2007-05-21: 03:52:00

not enough room in his IA (intelligent area) - galwaywegian, 2007-05-21: 06:18:00

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Thinkhole

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: think - ho - el

Sentence: In trying to remember what she meant to tell her husband, Marnie encountered a thinkhole. She could not retrieve the thoughts that had been preoccupying her for the last day and a half. She felt like her mind was wandering the desert.

Etymology: think, sink, sinkhole

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COMMENTS:

I must thay, that's a thuper word! - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 08:07:00

Love it! You got my vote! - artr, 2009-12-06: 06:53:00

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Ponderror

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pond + err + or

Sentence: I had this great idea for a new flavor of frozen yogurt but then my brain had a ponderror and I don't know what it was any more.

Etymology: ponder + error

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Ifonlyness

Created by: geoamnesia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The thought came, saw and fled in a nanosecond, leaving me with that familiar feeling of ifonlyness.

Etymology: If + only - a mental and emotional condition common to people with short memories, or no memory at all.

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Brainfart

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: brAin-fart

Sentence: Jill had a brainfart only 20 minutes into her speech. People noticed her distant stare and puzzled looks as she tried to recall the topic and reason for being at the podium.

Etymology: brain/fart, escape of bodily gas.

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