Verboticism: Irritrieveability
DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.
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Damnesia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dam nee sha
Sentence: You know the feeling...you go into a room, but forget why you went. You see someone familiar but cannot recall their name. You put your keys down, but cannot find them as you race around getting ready to go to work. Yes, it's that damnesia. You used to have a photographic memory...but now you keep forgetting to buy film for it. Your memory is now like a pen that runs out of ink. You have crossed into a new dementia, The Whywrite Zone.
Etymology: Damn (expletives used informally as intensifiers) & Amnesia (total or partial loss of memory)
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.
Pensamnesia
Created by: Carria
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: From latin pēnsāre "think " and amnesia
Trainmash
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: Trayn-mash
Sentence: Now, what did I come into this room for? Argh! I'm having a total trainmash!
Etymology: train - train of thought mash - crush, squash, smash wordplay on train crash
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'.
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)
Castathought
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: k-ah-s-t-uh-th-ough-t
Sentence: Jenna tried to remember her castathought but she had lost her concentration.
Etymology: castaway+thought
Forgthought
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Forg-thot
Sentence: Because of her constant blather about crustaceans and underpants, I complete forgthought of my metaphysical essay topic Nature of Time ... hey I remember now!
Etymology: Forgot (failed to remember) + forgo (do without, ie. the thought) + thought (idea produced by thinking)
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COMMENTS:
like it!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:43:00
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Ideaotomy
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: idea-otomy
Sentence: Dr.'s have recently put a name to the symptoms of a constant lose of though now known as ideaotomy
Etymology: idea-to have a thought otomy- the removal of something idea/otomy
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COMMENTS:
That's a pretty cool word.I suffer from it a lot!! - angelheart, 2007-05-22: 16:14:00
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Brainfugitive
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪnˈfjuːdʒətiv/
Sentence: I wanted to use my latest personal brainfugitive as an example in this sentence, but it escaped, and I haven't been able to track it down yet.
Etymology: A fugitive thought that's escaped from the brain.
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COMMENTS:
good one! - toadstool57, 2007-05-21: 07:34:00
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