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Is there a word which means to have known the meaning of a word but to have forgotten it?
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Yes.
Old Age .
I have been stricken with this disorder. The ratio of things-I-have-forgotten to things-I-know seems to be shifting balance.
"There are two sure signs of old age,
First, you start to forget things
Secondly, ...I can't remember the second one"
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton
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I appreciate the sentiment but I'm only thirty two. 
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well, let's see..
lethologica - the inability to remember the right word
anomia - a difficulty in finding the right words for objects or the inability to remember names
paramnesia - a condition in which the proper meaning of words cannot be remembered
aphasia - partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from brain damage due to injury or disease. Also called logagnosia, logamnesia, logasthenia
aphrasia - inability to speak, or to make intelligible phrases
I may, however, be suffering from loganamnosis..
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Doesn't that give you the runs?
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That's an impressive list of possibilities.  As far as I can see they are all disorders of one sort or another. The word I am looking for would be appropriate to an isolated incidence of forgetting a words meaning. The perfect example is with this word that I have forgotten but not as a consequence of my having a disorder - or at least I hope not!
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Again, this wouldn't apply to you, young whippersnapper, but what immediately comes to what mind I have left is senior moment.
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That's an impressive list of possibilities.
As far as I can see they are all disorders of one sort or another. The word I am looking for would be appropriate to an isolated incidence of forgetting a words meaning.
The perfect example is with this word that I have forgotten but not as a consequence of my having a disorder - or at least I hope not!
Only joking 
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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... 
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anomia - a difficulty in finding the right words for objects or the inability to remember names
I think it should be pointed out that anomia is a medical term which describes "an aphasia ... due to lesions in various portions of the language area", i.e., brain damage, and not just ordinary forgetfulness.
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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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