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'Why can't I google my socks?'

DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.

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Ramnesia

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: RAM-knee-zha

Sentence: Jim can track down the latest Lindsay Lohan photos in 12 seconds flat online, but he developed ramnesia when it was time to pay his credit card bills.

Etymology: RAM (random access memory) + amnesia

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Disdotorganization

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: dis-dot-or-gan-uh-zay-shun

Sentence: Alan's keys, due to his disdotorganization, often ended up in various places, such as the microwave.

Etymology: disorganization + dot-org (as in a website)

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Googaholic

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: goōgəhôlik

Sentence: The meeting began with Mark and others standing up and stating, **My name is Mark (or their own name) and I am a googaholic**. He knew he had to do this because he had become ingoogable of finding anything, even his googfriend*s house without his search engine and she lived just across the street.

Etymology: alcoholic - incapable - girlfriend

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Keydependent

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: key de pen dent

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Etymology: Over dependence upon use of key words to search for what one needs to find

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Goonesia

kumza

Created by: kumza

Pronunciation: goo nee jee ah

Sentence: Hector needed his epee pen after the wasp sting, but alas, his goonesia prevented him from finding it. He died.

Etymology: google amnesia

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Chercheholism

ubgrud

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: shar-sha-hol-ism

Sentence: He stood frozen in the middle of the grocery store, staring the multi-aisle maze. His chercheholism rendered him non-functional.

Etymology: cherche - french for search; holism - from alchoholism

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Pocketmaze

Created by: troutmask

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COMMENTS:

- troutmask, 2007-01-06: 20:45:00

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Dopesy

Created by: Chapin

Pronunciation: Dope-see, dope-uh-see (alt.)

Sentence: Either invisible gnomes are deliberately stealing and hiding my keys, or I've got terminal dopesy.

Etymology: Root: "dope," an idiot or stupid person. Also a play on "dropsy," an abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in bodily tissues or cavities.

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Absentfindedness

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: ab-sent-fine-did-ness

Sentence: Tristram's absentfindedness was steadily getting worse...he couldn't even find the note he'd written that told him where he'd left his glasses.

Etymology: absent + find (and echo of absent-minded)

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Good word chris! - wordmeister, 2007-01-06: 11:41:00

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Unfindicity

vixphilia

Created by: vixphilia

Pronunciation: Emphasis on the "fin"

Sentence: Dan's unfindicity makes me positively crazy!

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