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Is there a word for not being able to find the right word?
I was trying to right today and kept coming up with lots of words to describe what I was trying to say but had this urge to find one word to succinctly state what was taking a lot of words to express. I'm not joking: I have roughly four or five descriptions beginning with 'is there a word for...?'
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I suggest the proper term is "logophasia."
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this is such a common thing that there seem to be several possibilities. the one I remember(!) is lethologica.
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By jove, I think we've got it!
Lethologica: the inability to remember a word or put your finger on the right word.
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