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paramnesia - a condition in which the proper meaning of words cannot be remembered
A somewhat logocentric definition. My dictionary gives: "a condition or phenomenon involving distorted memory or confusions of fact and fantasy, such as confabulation or deja vu." And the On-line Medical Dictionary defines it as a form of confabulation, or "false recollection, as of events that have never occurred."
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Well, examples one and two are not necessarily the result of a medical condition. They are just part of being alive. I suffer from them more as each year passes. I blame it on a virus in my retrieval system... 
'Lethologica' is the nearest to the sense I had in mind but it's also a noun. I was thinking more of the word as a verb or an adjective.
I may never get to the bottom of this one. 
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paramnesia - a condition in which the proper meaning of words cannot be remembered
A somewhat logocentric definition.
logocentric, eh?
"To further add to the confusion, Pickford suggested that paramnesia describes a recognition failure for a specific item (object, picture [word?]), whereas deja vu consists of an amorphous familiarity for an entire setting, and a paramnesia can be traced back to a prior experience, whereas a deja vu can not. - Alan S. Brown, The Deja Vu Experience
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