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melissa #173535 02/13/08 08:02 PM
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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.

melissa #173774 02/21/08 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted By: melissa
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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dysnomia sounds right

Zed #173807 02/21/08 06:13 AM
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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.

Zed #173811 02/21/08 11:02 AM
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It's one of those words you forget really easily.

Faldage #173822 02/21/08 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted By: Faldage
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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