Verboticism: Damnesia
DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.
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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.
Mensabsentia
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: men-sab-sen-she-a
Sentence: On your 50th birthday you become eligible to join Mensabsentia. Members of this society can be identified by the blank look on their faces upon walking into a room, followed by an abrupt turnabout as the person goes back to where he or she started to see if they can remember why they went there in the first place. Members can often be heard saying "I used to be smart -- I even went to college and got my Master's!" Other characteristic phrases may be: "Turn that thing down -- are you deaf?" "Where the hell is my..." "Why, when I was your age..." and "What does it mean when the screen is black?"
Etymology: mensa: an exclusive society where the membership must have IQ test results better than 98% of the population + in absencia: in absence
Threadrift
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: thred-rift
Sentence: I had just the perfect final thought for my paper, but then I lost hold of it and the next minute it was threadrift.
Etymology: Thread (as in thread of an idea or thought) + drift (to move away)
Goncept
Created by: whipspeak
Pronunciation: gon-sept
Sentence: Now I can't remember why I liked this word - it's goncept.
Etymology: concept: Something formed in the mind; a thought or notion + gone: departed; left.
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COMMENTS:
immaculate gonception? - Nosila, 2009-12-04: 18:17:00
:-) inarticulate gonception - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 19:07:00
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Amnesiache
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: am nee zhe ayk
Sentence: When stressed, Maggie became distracted and found herself with an amnesiache. When that old train of thought gets derailed, it's a pain in the caboose.
Etymology: Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory) & Ache (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)
Demnemon
Created by: Scattercat
Pronunciation: de-NEH-mon. Similar to denouement, with which it shares some aspects of connotation as well.
Sentence: He opened his mouth to begin the presentation, and his mind went blank; if he hadn't had his notecards ready, it would have been a total demnemonstration.
Etymology: The word has roots in 'demon', such as might be responsible for the phenomenon, and 'mnemonic', which in this experience is conspicuous in its absence. The prefix 'de-' and the root 'mnem' also combined to play a certain role here.
Brainitch
Created by: LMR1991
Pronunciation: brain-i-tick
Sentence: Ugh! I have a brainitch.
Etymology:
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
Irritrieveability
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ir ret treev ab ilitee
Sentence: It happened again. Brianna had another irritrievability session. Her train of thought had become derailed again. It was like being an amnesiac in a soap opera. She could not remember anything from a second ago, nevermind longer. It all started when she began dating her co-star, Drew A. Blanc. He seemed to have no memory at all. Probably a good thing in Hollywood, but a bad thing for her...had they had their first kiss, gotten married, had a child? Who knew??? All that Brianna did know was that she would have to get back on the Ginko-Biloba again soon, or her career might be over! Whoulda thought????
Etymology: Irretrievable (impossible to recover or recoup or overcome) & Irritate (annoy;disturb, especially by minor irritations) & Ability (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done).
Craniaflatuence
Created by: angelheart
Pronunciation: Crania-FLAT-u-ence
Sentence: "I'm really suffering from a bad case of craniaflatuence"
Etymology: Crania-pertaining to the head or brain Flatuence-having excess gas in the system