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What ever name you give it. It's a symptom of the start of the old fashioned great forgetfulness. There's a word for that too. But I forgot.
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there is a word to decribe being unable to recall the word one wants to use. i can't remember the word, of course! anyone? It's something like dyspraxia (but that's not it). Is it dysnomia perhaps? Or dyslogia?
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let's not develop loganamnosis about this. aphasia, anomia, dysnomia, and tip-of-the-tongue syndrome are all clinical terms. as Cecil, of The Straight Dope discovered, the layman's term *is lethologica. - joe (straight and dopey) friday
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I'll bet most laymen don't know that it's their term.
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It's one of those words you forget really easily.
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It's one of those words you forget really easily. No, it's one of those words you never knew in the first place! 
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